Re: Request for more details

Ben Franksen <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:47:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 12.11.20 um 13:21 schrieb Dalon Work:
> Ah, I figured it out. The baseline when importing patches is the set of
> patches common to the two repositories.

Exactly. It is never allowed to "just apply patches and see if that
works". Instead, a patch is only valid in either its original context
(i.e. when recorded), or, suitably modified, in any context that it can
be commuted to. (Here context means the set of preceding patches.)

Cheers
Ben