* Henning Thielemann
Peter Verswyvelen schrieb:
3) hg addrem this adds new files and removes deleted files from local repos. forgetting to add files is a common problem, and is really tricky since no record is made of these files, so if after a couple of versions if a developer finds out a file was missing, the history is useless since you can't reconstruct the old content of that local file anymore, and often it's impossible to give the local file to the other developers since it might be changed. I actually would like to have an option that automatically adds/deletes files on each commit, as it is easier to delete a file after it is checked in, than it is to reconstruct an old version from a local file you forgot to add.
I'm also not glad with darcs behaviour about non-added files. You can try
darcs whatsnew --look-for-adds
You can also pass --look-for-adds (-l) to darcs record; if you want this to be the default behaviour, you could add "record look-for-adds" to ~/.darcs/defaults or similar.
4) hg commit -m "message" this commits my changes locally. I always do this before pulling since then I'm sure my changes are saved in the case a merge goes wrong.
In old darcs its precisely the other way round. Since it is so slow on merging ready patches, you better merge uncrecorded changes.
This sounds like bad advice; merging changes with locally unrecorded changes shouldn't be any less expensive than merging them with a just-recorded patch (the algorithm is exactly the same, after all, unless there's something I've missed), and you have no way to roll things back if you don't record a patch before merging. Of course, you may want to unrecord your temporary patch after you've pulled, to keep your patch history neater. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar