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Re: Darcs Patch Theory

groundwa...@gmail.com (Jacob Groundwater) — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:00 UT

Agreed

I think 90% of my git commands are:
- branch / checkout / merge / rebase
- add / commit
- push / pull
- status / diff
notice the lack of explicite branching operations.
How do you develop features concurrently but in isolation? For example, in
git to develop three features you specify three branches. Each feature is

Re: Darcs Patch Theory

hermanta...@gmail.com (onetom) — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:15:28 UT

==== Conflicts and merges ====
darcs transforms are line based, so it widens the window of chance for
conflicts compared to the character based google docs or etherpad, but in
practice i have experienced far less conflicts compared to git (even if i
was carefully rebasing).
i hope we can all agree that having to deal with merges is a distraction

Darcs Patch Theory

groundwa...@gmail.com (Jacob Groundwater) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:16:34 UT

I had a look at how Darcs patches work, they are identical to what Google
calls *Operational Transforms*, a data structure used by Google Wave, and
now incorporated into Google Documents.
If I recall, the only way this works is that every update can be decomposed
into a sequence of operational transforms. I believe not ever update to a