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by kgwgk
493 days ago
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"In our dependency graph you can also see that all our changes concerning the files A and B are totally independent from each other. So I could pull only the changes concerning B from the repository while ignoring the changes regarding A altogether. This is an incredibly powerful mechanism that snapshot based version control systems do not have. Now you can pull in a set of patches and ignore all those that don’t depend on the change you are currently interested in. Other version control systems like git for example call this cherry picking, but compared to darcs they are suffering from some short comings. In those version control system you re-record the patch when you cherry pick it. That means that its whole identity changes, one way in which this manifests is that it will get a different hash. So even though it’s the exact same change the patches are now different. This can become quite annoying when working in a distributed setting, with darcs this is a complete non-issue." |
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