[elephant-devel] Ditching Darcs

Henrik Hjelte henrik at evahjelte.com
Thu Oct 23 10:13:52 UTC 2008


Slightly off-topic but I want to defend poor little darcs..
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Leslie P. Polzer
<sky at viridian-project.de>wrote:
>
>
> The issue here isn't really "hg/git/ubercool-dvcs is better" but
> more like "darcs sucks".
>
> For example it drives me nuts that it doesn't give patches a
> unique ID apart from the commit message.


Darcs gives patches a hash value to identify them, try:

 darcs changes --last 1 --xml-output

And you can select a single patch for example like this:

darcs pull --match
'hash 20080215135054-c77ce-d150ea6c60a911dc70c051bd238897f4b2bb3c2d'

/Henrik
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