Bazaar as a working interface to Darcs repositories

[Ben Finney]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > They both sound like one-way operations. How would I use these
> > options for ongoing collaborate with an active Darcs repository?
>
> essentially diff + patch, unfortunately.
>
> AIUI we could track a darcs repository losslessly about 75% of the time,
> until darcs decides it needs to reorder the patches. At that point, the
> history conversion will break.

:-(

[…]

> In the end, I think you have to live with a fast-export conversion and
> diff + patch. 'darcs' internally works completely differently from all
> the other DVCS systems. (Except Arch/tla, which sort of had a similar
> 'I am the sum of my patches' system.)
>
> I hope this is slightly helpful rather than just wordy. But your best
> bet today is to take snapshots of upstream, and collaborate via
> something like diff + patch.

It's very helpful, thank you. You had me at “Darcs deliberately loses
revision history”.

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Ben Finney
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