On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:21:00 -0700, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote:
> Archi writes:
>
> > What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does
> not
> > solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how corner
> cases
> > make for a good marketing feature.
>
> Rebase is mostly about presentation, rather than solving problems.
>
> Also, in some cases you want to "force commute" across a dependency
> (again usually for presentation purposes, but sometimes to make a
> branch work better).
The new hunk splitting allows those commutes.
What do you mean by presentation? darcs changes? For that you can just create a new working dir and pull in the order you want. Some external graphing tool? Hmmm... same solution I think.
> Archi writes:
>
> > What scenario were you wanting rebase for that patch commutation does
> not
> > solve? There are specific corner cases, but I don't see how corner
> cases
> > make for a good marketing feature.
>
> Rebase is mostly about presentation, rather than solving problems.
>
> Also, in some cases you want to "force commute" across a dependency
> (again usually for presentation purposes, but sometimes to make a
> branch work better).
The new hunk splitting allows those commutes.
What do you mean by presentation? darcs changes? For that you can just create a new working dir and pull in the order you want. Some external graphing tool? Hmmm... same solution I think.
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Archi
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