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List:       darcs-users
Subject:    [darcs-users] Re: get/pull/push
From:       Ashley Yakeley <ashley () semantic ! org>
Date:       2005-02-25 0:59:56
Message-ID: ashley-E9664E.16595624022005 () sea ! gmane ! org
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In article <20050224094740.GA6310@factotummedia.nl>,
 Thomas Zander <TZander@factotummedia.nl> wrote:

> > As I understand it, "darcs get" is only valid if you don't have a 
> > repository locally, while "darcs pull" is only valid if you do have one. 
> > Why not merge the two commands?
> 
> For the same reason cvs checkout and cvs update are not merged; as well as
> with svn's equivalent commands.

The difference is that "cvs update" doesn't allow you to specify a 
remote repository.

I appreciate that it may not be appropriate to silently and 
unpredictably create new repositories, so perhaps prompting would be 
more appropriate. Right now, if you call "pull" in a directory without a 
repository, this happens:

  $ darcs pull "http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/"

  darcs failed:  Unable to "darcs pull" here.

  You need to be in a repository directory to run this command.

Consider changing this to:

  $ darcs pull "http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/"
  Not in a repository. Create a new one? [Yn] y
  Welcome to the darcs darcs repository!

  This is the stable release branch.
  **********************
  etc.

This is a conservative change as it only changes an existing error state 
and it prompts you before doing anything different.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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