when pulling using --intersection and --match 'touch file', darcs leaves some
patches which are common to both repositories. These patches show through darcs
pull --match 'touch file' on each repository. They even show up by running the
command with --intersection a second time.

The offending repository is visible at
http://code.haskell.org/~galbolle/darcs2-bug/intersection-match-inconsistency/
and a backlog of the commands I ran is attached.

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• backlog

Actually, the reason these patch show is that they don't match the match
criterion, but depend on different patches that do in each directory. This is
not a bug as such, but can be confusing.

This does however lead to a feature wish: when using --match, the interface
should  make clear which patch match the criterion and which are proposed
because of dependencies. It should also be possible to automatically answer 'w'
to all patches that do not match, but are depended upon, so that one chooses
between the matching patches.

--dont-prompt-for-deps does the first half of this, but it is not explicit about
patches which will get pulled because of dependencies, it pulls them silently.
We need to offer a review of what will be effectively pulled/sent/… especially
when the user has used --dont-prompt-for-deps or 'w' at the interactive screen.

Still working on this, Florent?  Just checking :-)