Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action

From: Kevin Smith <yarcs@qualitycode.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2005, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <42658E38.1020406@qualitycode.com>
In-Reply-To: <1113950442.29444.31.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>

Ray Lee wrote:

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> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 22:05 -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> 
>>Notice that just by looking at my diffs, you can't tell that I used a
>>replace operation.
> 
> 
> Here's where we disagree. If you checkpoint your tree before the
> replace, and immediately after, the only differences in the
> source-controlled files would be due to the replace.

But I might have manually changed those tokens, or I might have done it with a replace operation. Just looking at the diffs, those two cases would look identical and be indistinguishable. The only way to know whether or not a darcs replace was done was to look at the patch metadata.

Pop quiz:

Here is revision 1 of my file:

    abcde

Here is revision 2:

wow

Now, did I do that with a darcs replace, or just by typing?

Kevin