[Haskell-cafe] helping you contribute to darcs (poll results so far)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:28:58AM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> At Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:48:03 +0100,
> Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> > I've just had a quick read of
> >     http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/prakash92undoing.html
> > AFAICS this only really deals with the case where there are no
> > conflicts, and doesn't talk about merging.
> 
> AFAIK, the papers do not talking about merging.
> 
> They cover conflicts in the case where you want to remove/reorder an
> older patch which conflicts with a newer one.

Only in the case where you have already undone the newer one, and thus
can just remove both the new patch and its inverse, I thought.

> Since I don't know the darcs internals or patch theory, I don't have a
> concept of how much is still missing

The difficult part is still missing  :-)


Thanks
Ian