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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla |
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Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:08:31 +0900 |
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>>>>> "John" == John A Meinel <John> writes:
John> In tla, though, you don't need the binary distinction
John> because it always preserves the blobs you give it. If diff
John> is able to create a textual patch, that is what you get,
John> otherwise it reverts to the whole blob approach.
I don't really understand why darcs requires this, but one thing I
noticed is that darcs represents a binary file as hex inside the
patch. The patch is serialized in a single file, none of this bizarre
"changeset is a whole tree with lots of stuff you've never seen before
in it".
Another thing about darcs is that darcs really does think of patches
as an operator algebra. darcs is not a revision control system in the
sense that CVS or arch is; darcs is an editor with changeset (rather
than text) semantics. It's more clumsy to use than vi or emacs at the
moment, but that will change, I suspect.
David Roundy seems to be very concerned with these concepts.
John> mv and darcs mv are about the same. But you can't use a GUI
John> navigator and have it run darcs mv.
Speak for yourself. :-) *I* can, because my navigator is dired.
Even if it's not directly customizable (but I bet it is already), I
can fix that, simply by rebinding R to dired-darcs-mv in dired-map:
(defun dired-darcs-mv (target)
(interactive "FMove to: ")
(shell-command (format "darcs mv %s %s" (dired-get-filename) target)))
:-)
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Miles Bader, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Bruce Stephens, 2004/11/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Arbitrary file classes (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla), Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Johannes Berg, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Johannes Berg, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2004/11/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Mark Stosberg, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Brian May, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2004/11/18