On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Owen Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 March 2012 13:16, John Lato <[email protected]> wrote: >> I find that I often want a command that performs an "unapply" - >> patches are unapplied from the working copy but remain in the local >> repository. Presently I usually get this behavior by either doing >> "darcs obliterate" followed by "darcs pull", or "darcs send -o >> somepatches" then "darcs apply somepatches". Obviously this is >> non-optimal, as I need to check beforehand whether the patch exists >> elsewhere or not. > > You can skip some steps in your workflow, by using the -o option of > obliterate > (I've just tested this on a small repo locally): > > darcs obliterate -o removed_patches.dpatch > "hack, hack, hack." > darcs apply removed_patches.dpatch
Thanks for this; I didn't know that obliterate would take a -o option. The resulting workflow is about what I had hoped for. > > >> Is there a command that does this already? If not, would others find >> it useful? It seems like it'd be simple to add. > > I'm not sure that this work around is the optimal aproach, it might be nice > if > darcs could somehow help to manage the "unapplied" patches for you (though > I'm > cautious to suggest it should maintain a list of disabled patches) For what I had in mind, the unapplied patches wouldn't need any management. If the hacks work out, then "darcs record" would automatically Do The Right Thing. To abandon any changes and apply the "unapplied" patches, just do a "darcs revert". At least for my workflow, I'd never want to use unapply to work on multiple changes in the same repo. As I see it, the drawbacks of the workaround you present are that it takes more typing, the .dpatch file needs to be cleaned up, and there's still a danger of mistyping something and obliterating (or at least misplacing) patches you want to keep. But it's still better than what I'm doing now, and darcs is smart enough that "darcs obliterate -o /dev/null" doesn't actually remove anything. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
