Re: Centralized darcs
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > NO. They need not care. They can just hack and send me diffs. My
> > debian/changelog will already document what has been going on anyway.
>
> Heh. So they need two copies, one where they do modifications, then diff
> those and send you the diff. Or they need to change debian/changelog and
This is not a fault of darcs; this is how Debian packages work. What's
the problem? apt-get source and cp -r and that's it.
> learn to use interdiff. All that is more work that just callin
> "dpatch_edit_patch foo".
One extra command, and it's less work than learning how to use N
different patch systems.
> Why do dist.VCS fans always talk about patches like the would rain from
> the sky just so?
Because everyone knows how to use cp and diff, and because I get diffs
sent to the BTS all the time. It works. And it has nothing to do with
VCS -- it's just Debian packages.
> And if the user has more than one patch which needs to be maintained
> separately, is it still is still trivial FOR HIM? (or her)
Who is the user?
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