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Re: n-heads and patch dependency chains

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 3, 2006, 14:29 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030727250.3781@g5.osdl.org>
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Sam Vilain wrote:
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> 
> "Patch dependency chains", the best plain-English term we could find for
> the scary sounding darcs term "patch calculus", are said by some to be a
> very good reason to use a system like darcs, even to some its
> fundamental advantage over systems such as git.

I really think that darcs is just "nice theory", and has nothing to do with real life.

Terms like "patch calculus" may sound cool and useful, but let's face it, the proof is in the pudding, and quite frankly, I would bet that trying to do something like that on a real project would just be a total disaster.

I want my merges simple. I want them to take a couple of seconds. I don't want to see strange patch dependencies that nobody cares about. And I very much don't want to see theory over practice.

		Linus
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  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 3, 2006
  3. Sam VilainApr 3, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2006
  5. Sam VilainApr 3, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonApr 4, 2006
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  8. Andreas EricssonApr 4, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiApr 4, 2006
  10. Andreas EricssonApr 4, 2006
  11. Jon LoeligerApr 20, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  13. Andreas EricssonApr 21, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2006
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  16. Sam VilainApr 5, 2006
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