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Re:Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound t... by riffraff on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:36PM (#24594357)
You left out the thing that was awesome about darcs, that pijul could do too: real cherry pick,where picking a change also tracked down the other patches needed for that, you could literally pull whole features from one tree to another, not just a commit.

It was marvelous with darcs.

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Re:Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound t... by jcheng on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:52PM (#24594898)
Isn't that describing `git merge <commit>`? (The whole point of cherry-pick being that you specifically DON'T want anything but the one commit)

Edit: Never mind, I see that darcs patches are not equivalent to git commits (and maybe not to anything in git).

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