I know that there are issues already in the tracker for this, but I had
a quick noodle of an idea (tangentially borrowed from a git discussion)
and wasn't sure which one might be best to attach to, or if I should
just post as a new one.
Here's the idea, something like:
darcs pull --every-remote-repo
I think that would be an easy place to start to experiment with a UI for
better making use of _darcs/prefs/repos, and a foundation from which
to explore some of the other possibilities. Thing like aliases or an
interactive chooser API (perhaps using an ``-i -i`` experimental flag
usage) could be explored under a flag choice like this without
cluttering currently unadorned darcs calls. Certainly it would also be a
good place to play with how to make the information reasonably
informative when interacting with multiple repositories at once ("This
patch appears in repos x and y but not z.").
(If the usage isn't obvious from the flag choice: darcs would try to
pull from every remote (non-local) repository in a _darcs/prefs/repos to
get all "upstream" patches. I imagine this could be quite handy with
both interactive pulls and possibly even things like ``darcs pull -a
--every --union``.)
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--Max Battcher--
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