Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Nov 19, 2005, 13:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20051119132720.GC3393@nowhere.earth>
In-Reply-To: <7vr79dcu0j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:21:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I do not think tree-to-tree thing is very useful and that is
> what I meant to say by "tree-to-tree is still stronger than
> necessary".
> 
> What is recorded as a "change" by darcs feels more like "This
> makes it to do Y instead of doing X", and it is not about
> tree-to-tree.

I'm not sure we could go that path. I see git and darcs as quite opposed in approach, since darcs works by explicitely describing the structure of changes, whereas git allows to use arbitrary ways to derive this structure from the trees.

But then if we could reconcile those 2 approaches...

Best regards,

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