Norman Ramsey wrote:
> For those that don't follow the darcs-devel list, David has just announced
> a pre-release of Darcs 2:
I did see an announcement on the Haskell list, and I was slightly
alarmed that some unspecified operations will no longer work
disconnected. I don't have time to keep up with the darcs mailing
lists, so I haven't informed myself about the details, but as a casual
user of darcs I find the statement alarming. To me one of the great
strengths of darcs has been my utter confidence that I can be on an
airplane and pretty much do as I like except pull from or push to a
repo that is not on my machine. If that has changed, I won't be using
Darcs 2. If it hasn't, the casual users need to be reassured.
I'm sure there's a more appropriate forum to say this in, but I don't
know what it is. The main thing is that David sees it---David,
presumably you know your users and know whether others will be
frightened as I was.
This is really just a user interface issue: the big change is that lazy get
is the default in darcs 2, whereas previously you had to specify --partial.
I think I agree with Norman here, the default should be to get a complete
copy, if you want a lazy partial repository you should have to say so.
Cheers,
Simon
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