On 05/06/10 21:06, Simon Michael wrote:
I joined an interesting discussion on #darcs today; here's what I proposed. I think this or something like it would be a good direction to aim for. What do you think ?
dear list, read the IRC logs if you want to see what kind of discussion has already happened (I think the context wasn't much presented in the above message),
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-05-06#i_2302516
darcs init --format=darcs-1|darcs-2-backward-compatible|darcs-2
By "darcs-2-backward-compatible" do you actually mean the format that's compatible with darcs-1 repos but *not* with darcs-2 repos? (i.e. "hashed" as we've been calling it so far). (reading "darcs-2-backward-compatible" I think "some format that is backwards-compatible with darcs 2", rather than "some format that is backwards-compatible, and which also has something to do with darcs 2".) If I had to pick a naming similar to the above set, what about "darcs-1.5"?(which suggests by version-number conventions that it is a revision of the "darcs 1" format, and also luckily there was never an executable versioned darcs 1.5 so there wouldn't be confusion with that.) Or (having now read the IRC logs, which mentioned a theoretical future "darcs-3" and "darcs-3-backward-compatible") it makes me alternatively think "darcs-2-compatible-with-darcs-1" (in fact which other repo formats *would* "darcs-3-backward-compatible" be compatible with? Obviously not *both* darcs-2 and darcs-1, because those two are not even compatible with each other's patches!)
(Also, Is it naive to think that darcs-1 executables are far enough in the past (still in-place in a few places,), that it's unwise to create modern-day user-interface instability just in order to make the situation regarding darcs-1 executables clearer? However I guess the --format proposal also makes things clearer like hashed vs. darcs2, as well as avoiding our complete insanity the next time we invent another repo format or two.)
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