From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:27:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through
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:
> 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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