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Darcs (darcs is a distributed version control system created by David Roundy. Contrary to other systems like git that are snapshot-based, Darcs is patched-based. As such, a repository can be seen as a set of patches, where each patch is not necessarily ordered with respect to other patches.

Installation

Emerge

root #emerge --ask dev-vcs/darcs

Configuration

Files

Usage

Invocation

Tips

Troubleshooting

Darcs is case-insentive by default so it will refuse to add a file that has it case changed. This can be solved with

user $darcs add --case-ok

Beware that it can lead to strange behaviours on case-insentivie filesystems (like Windows).

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose dev-vcs/darcs