On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Claus Reinke
Perhaps the rumours refer to non-tagged "versions"? In conventional non-distributed version control systems, one might go back to the version on a specific date, while with darcs, that only makes sense wrt a specific repo (I think?).
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 23:43:36 +0200, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Yes, that might be the rumor indeed, it surely sounds like it :) Darcs is really very different, so it takes a while to get used to it when coming from other systems.
This has been said in one of the earlier responses, but I thought it was worth repeating: darcs has a notion of context files which can be used to retrieve exactly another version of a repository with darcs get --context name-of-file. You can generate such files by invoking darcs changes --context. For that matter, patch bundles (as created by darcs send) can also be used as context files. It's sometimes quite handy to do something like darcs get --context foo.dpatch to retrieve exactly the version of the repository a patch bundle was meant to apply to. This is one of the little known features of darcs, and should probably appear in some kind of darcs tips series of blog articles :-) -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9