#include <hallo.h> * John Goerzen [Tue, Aug 01 2006, 04:47:13PM]: > I do use darcs to track patches against upstream. I really don't > understand the whole cdbs/dpatch/whatever thing -- why use a hack to > manage your patches when you could use a real VC tool that does it > better?
Because you can make your work persistent in atoms without having a complicated meta layer inbetween. Patching with VC works well (even with Subversion) if you have just few lines to change (basic use case while developing svn-buildpackage) but the fun disappears when you have a dozen of patches from different sources. I get scared sometimes when I hear people talking proudly about managing their project using a distributed VCS as framework to link dozens of patch layers together though I admittedly never tried to recreate a such scenario. It sounds like a lot of overhead and big waste of time from the beginning, sorry. Eduard. -- <LGS> Halloechen, ihr Spinner, so frueh auf? <nusse> nein, wir schlafen alle im kollektiv <knorke> mein alkoven ist kaputt <teq> alkohol kaputt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
