Jason Dagit schrieb:
* Every commit needs --ask-deps , because the automatic dependency detector can only detect automatic changes (and not things like adding a new function in a different module)
You mean it can only detect dependencies that depend on each other with respect to a diff of the changes. Detecting most anything else would be undecidable in the general case. As a divergent data point, I've been using darcs since 2003 and I have yet to use --ask-deps except to learn how it works.
I think that other version control systems just assume that a new patch depends on _all_ existing patches. Mentally I am still comparing Darcs with Subversion, that is, what my colleagues use. Thus I am even happy with Darcs-1. :-) Sure, sometimes I have to re-record several patches, when I forgot to download latest patches from a repository before recording my own ones. My rule of thumb is, that I must avoid merges at all costs.