Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch/subversion comparison question

[Aaron Bentley]

Amit shah wrote:

> One more point, this is related to darcs:
>
> http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2003/000146.html
>
> Basically, darcs allows you to establish (or rather, itself establishes)
> relationships between patches, so that if you retrieve patch-11 which is an
> enhancement over patch-8, it would retrieve both, patch-8 as well as
> patch-11.
>
> The author has compared darcs to arch in this case, showing where darcs
> shines over arch. Has this been implemented or is it in the pipeline?
>  
Purely text-based dependency tracking?  That's implemented in an aba 
script: rev-deps.  It produces a list of the textual dependencies of a 
patch, so actually applying those particular patches is mere grunt-work.

I thought at first you were talking about something which could be 
guaranteed to actually work, and text-based dependency tracking can't do 
that.

The immediate approach is to simply create a branch containing patch-8 
and patch-11.
See my archive address@hidden/tlasrc--greedy--1.2, 
which contains interdependent greedy-library patches, for example.

Christian has proposed a way of tracking feature dependencies:
http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Discuss_20Arch_20features_2fLogicDependcyTracking

Aaron