[darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

2007-03-07 Thread Simon Marlow
Brian Smith wrote: Sometimes there are obvious problems on Windows that don't get noticed before release. Also, by design, the filename case handling is painful on Windows--for example, it is not possible to pull the GHC repository without using --partial on Windows due to historical changes

[darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

2007-03-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
WM == William Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WM 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of WM conflicts can cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport WM that is a year old. Is this still an issue? It is, at least with Darcs 1.0.9rc1 from Debian. WM

Re: [darcs-users] current status of darcs

2007-03-07 Thread Grant Husbands
William Morgan wrote: I can make many convincing arguments for the usefulness of distributed, changset-based VC, but what I don't have a sense of is how stable and reliable darcs is. I'll be in big trouble if things go awry. :) The concepts behind Darcs are mostly excellent. When it has

Re: [darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

2007-03-07 Thread Max Battcher
On 3/6/07, Tassilo Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi William, 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of conflicts can cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport that is a year old. Is this still an issue? Is it a common

Re: [darcs-users] RE: current status of darcs

2007-03-07 Thread zooko
The trouble is that, unless I misunderstand, darcs simply does not support this scenario, at least not for projects as big as GHC. Step 4 doesn't work, and there is no viable work-around. One of us must be misunderstanding something, because I do things like this all the time. The threat