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

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <juliusz.chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>
Date: Apr 20, 2005, 07:52 UTC
Message-ID: <7i3btlubpm.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1113959503.29444.91.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>

> However, I'm claiming a token is defined by the file's language, and
> that a replace patch on anything but a token as per those language
> standards is a silly thing.

Please recall the context of this discussion: getting Darcs to grok git repositories.

You are arguing that it should be possible to design a set of heuristics that Do The Right Thing often enough. And you are probably right.

But the point is immaterial as nobody has stepped up to implement in Darcs the sort of heuristics you have in mind. Partly because nobody has time, but mostly because we don't like heuristics, we prefer Darcs to remain deterministic.

So while yes, it might be possible to get about using heuristics, it seems rather unlikely that that's what we'll do.

                                        Juliusz