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Darcs is still worth a look

Posted Mar 5, 2010 12:31 UTC (Fri) by bpearlmutter (subscriber, #14693)
In reply to: Darcs is still worth a look by droundy
Parent article: Darcs 2.4 released

Whoa! If that were cryptographically signed, it would be about as
strong an indictment of the continued viability of darcs as a project
as you could see.

So, um, could I ask you to elaborate: what are the fundamental
intractable issues that have caused you to give up on your
brainchild?

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Posted Mar 8, 2010 4:02 UTC (Mon) by droundy (subscriber, #4559) [Link]

The main issue is that we still have no idea how to handle merges that
involve conflicts. The current code works fine, as long as you don't have a
conflict with the resolution of a conflict, and often it works even then.
But it's not that hard to cause it to fail completely, and then you're stuck
merging a lot of changes without darcs' help. And alas, it's not an easy
problem, so far as I can tell.