hsenag

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   by hsenag 2y ago

   > I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen? The biggest thing we need is more developers.
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   by hsenag 2y ago

   You could always go back to emailing around file changes :-) Most VCSes including git have some level of complicated algorithms behind them. Darcs does have significant weaknesses when it comes to handling conflicts but the core logic of fi
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   by hsenag 2y ago

   It's based on "patches" (which was what the original comment was referring to). A Darcs patch is somewhat like a diff, in that most patches will describe a sequence of text to be removed and added from specific points in each
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   by hsenag 2y ago

   Even if previous VCSes (edit: other than Darcs) used diffs internally to store changes efficiently, they were still inherently snapshot based. I think Git's advantage was mainly from using Merkle trees rather than specifically that it