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List:       darcs-users
Subject:    Re: [darcs-users] Re: cache-name-proposal
From:       Thomas Zander <TZander () factotummedia ! nl>
Date:       2005-01-24 14:38:33
Message-ID: 20050124143833.GA10653 () factotummedia ! nl
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:50:10AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:51:39PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > > We could also consider changing it in the _darcs directory, at least
> > > for current.none, the new format.  Since _darcs/current/ is only
> > > used locally, it might not even be too bad to change its name to
> > > _darcs/pristine, with appropriate code to try _darcs/current if
> > > _darcs/pristine doesn't exist (or the other way around).
> > 
> > Wouldn't that break when people use old darcs to pull from new repos?
> 
> Yeah, but only if they're doing a local get (since pull doesn't look at
> current), which is *relatively* uncommon.  Basically, I can only forsee it
> being a problem when you've got an nfs-shared repository and a number of
> computers with mixed versions of darcs.  Hmmm.  I suppose that's not all
> that uncommon.

I do a
    darcs get --partial head bug123-foo-bar
quite often.

-- 
Thomas Zander


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