Re: n-heads and patch dependency chains

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Sam Vilain wrote:

"Patch dependency chains", the best plain-English term we could find for
the scary sounding darcs term "patch calculus", are said by some to be a
very good reason to use a system like darcs, even to some its
fundamental advantage over systems such as git.

I really think that darcs is just "nice theory", and has nothing to do 
with real life.

Terms like "patch calculus" may sound cool and useful, but let's face it, 
the proof is in the pudding, and quite frankly, I would bet that trying to 
do something like that on a real project would just be a total disaster.

I want my merges simple. I want them to take a couple of seconds. I don't 
want to see strange patch dependencies that nobody cares about. And I very 
much don't want to see theory over practice.

		Linus