[Haskell-cafe] Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-darcs-import 0.1

Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2008-06-03, Peter Hercek wrote:

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Loup Vaillant wrote:

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2008/6/3 Darrin Thompson :

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<--cut--> What's the appeal of this? I personally love git, but I thought all the cool kids at this school used darcs and that was that. Disclaimer: I'm no expert, this is what I've heard. Anyone please confirm or deny the following?

Basically, git is waaay faster than Darcs on a number of use cases. Other reason can be "git rebase". Of course there is a question how good practice it is ... but it is being used.

Darcs patches are pretty much an implicit rebase.

You cannot push patch B if it depends on patch A without also pushing A. And darcs currently does not alow you to reorder B before A (which is what git rebase actually does). Git rebase works quite well even in cloned repositories. See: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue891 Some discussin about it is also here: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-February/011564.html When the issue is fixed then darcs will be really patch based and will become the ultimate DSCM :-)