Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action
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David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>
- Date
- Apr 19, 2005, 11:05 UTC
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- <20050419110521.GC28269@abridgegame.org>
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- <1113874931.23938.111.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:42:11PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
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> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:05 -0400, Kevin Smith wrote: > > You could guess, but that's not good enough for darcs to be able to > > reliably commute the patches later. > > Who said anything about guessing? If a user replaces all instances of > foo with bar, that's as close to proof as you can ever get, without > recording intent of the user at the time it's done. Now, I realize that > darcs *does* record intent, but I claim that's immaterial.
The problem is, how do you know how to define a token? That's also included in a darcs patch. And a darcs user may choose not to use a replace patch, if (for example) he's renaming a local variable, since he might not want to mess with other functions in the same file.
Guessing the author's intent cannot reliably reproduce the author's stated intent. Either we need to include that information in one form or another (and in one location or another), or we've got to simply disallow replaces (and moves?) when interacting with git.
-- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net