Hello, perhaps we should have a well-defined place in the repo where we keep the finger-prints associated with tags and branches in the main repo? This would make it a lot easier to get to a fully defined previous/different state.
On this note, could someone send the link to the 7.6 fingerprint? Ian said that it is somewhere in the nightly build logs but I don't where to look. -Iavor On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/09/2012 02:15, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > > > exactly what git's submodule machinery does, so it seems pointless to >> >> > implement the functionality which is already there with a standard >> > interface. Thoughts? >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/**trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsConversion#** >> Theperspectiveonsubmodules<http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsConversion#Theperspectiveonsubmodules> >> >> >> I have seen this. Our custom "fingerprint" solution has the exact same >> drawbacks (because it does the exact same thing as sub-modules), and in >> addition it has the drawback of >> 1. being a custom non-standard solution, >> 2. it is not obvious where to find the "fingerprint" associated with >> a particular branch (which is what lead to my question in the first >> place). >> > > > Well, it doesn't quite have the same drawbacks as submodules, because our > solution places a burden only on someone who wants to recover a particular > repository state, rather than on everyone doing development. > > I think it's worth keeping an eye on submodules in case they fix the > gotchas in the UI, but at the moment it looks like we'd have a lot of > confused developers, lost work and accidental breakages due to people not > understanding how submodules work or forgetting to jump through the correct > hoops. > > I'm not saying fingerprints are a good solution, obviously they only solve > a part of the problem, but the current tooling for submodules leaves a lot > to be desired. > > Cheers, > Simon > >
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