[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] git-darcs-import 0.1

[Bertram Felgenhauer]

Darrin Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bertram Felgenhauer
> <bertram.felgenhauer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce yet another tool for importing darcs repositories
> > to git. [...]
>
> What's the appeal of this? I personally love git, but I thought all
> the cool kids at this school used darcs and that was that.

For myself, git-darcs-import itself is an opportunity to learn more
about both darcs and git. It wasn't meant to be argument in the git
vs. darcs discussion, although it was inevitable that it would be
seen as such.

I really like darcs' concepts, but in my opinion, darcs doesn't get
enough power out of the theory of patches to really shine so far.

This is a hard problem, and I can't offer solutions. Ideally, you'd have
semantic patches which just commute with virtually all other patches
because they "know" what they are about. The only thing that darcs
offers in that direction - besides handling conflicts, mergers and
undos gracefully, which is quite useful in itself - is a keyword
substitution patch type.

In the meantime, I prefer git to darcs, mainly because I'm sort of
attached to seeing the development history, i.e. I prefer to think of
patches as (partially) ordered instead of being a cloud of patches
that darcs uses as a model.

Bertram