Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2008 Aug 3, at 19:16, Ben Franksen wrote: >> The naive way to emulate your split feature would be to create a >> branch >> where you delete all the stuff you don't want and then maybe move the >> subproject to a new directory (nearer the top-level). This doesn't >> work, >> however, at least not in practice. This is because deletion of a file >> conflicts with a change to the same file which leads to a huge >> amount of >> conflicts each time you pull from the old combined repo. And the >> reason you >> get these conflicts is that in darcs a file always gets emptied before >> deletion, and this is because changing a file depends on its >> existence in >> the first place. I proposed to change this and allow changes to >> non-existing files, so called 'ghosts'. This has a number of >> interesting >> consequences, among them that you could delete as many files as you >> want >> and will never again get a conflict with changes to those files >> (that is, >> unless you explicitly 'resurrect' the ghost). >> >> Unfortunately few people (and none of the core-developers) seemed to >> be >> interested :( The small thread that developed on the darcs-users list >> should still be available in the archives if you are interested in the >> details. > > I would suggest that they'd be more interested if you provided code; > if they have no need for your proposal they're unlikely to devote time > to coding it.
You are suggesting that I am expecting others to devote time to code proposals of mine. I don't know where you get this idea. I am used to discuss the merits of a new feature, especially one so far-reaching, before starting to unilaterally throw code at a project. Your own style of collaboration might be different, though. Anyway, I would suggest that you add something of interest rather than patronizing people with dubious 'suggestions'. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
