New submission from Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It would be useful in the case of immutable repositories (repositories for tools like darcs get mainly, with all mutating commands --disabled in defaults) to be stored without any of the files in its working directory. Thus the only overhead for the immutable repository would be _darcs-related, much of which can be linked by darcs get/optimize already.
The primary use case scenario would be you might wish to store a repository at a certain point in time, be it a tag repository (darcs get --tag --no-working- directory) or just a current snapshot repository (darcs get --no-working- directory). This immutable repository (again, adding enforcing lines to _darcs/prefs/defaults) could then still be useful to tools like darcsweb that rely on the pristine cache rather than the working directory and in use with darcs get/pull. Admittedly, having no working directory may often not be a huge space savings, but the lack of files in the working directory is a very obvious hint to other developers that the repository is in fact immutable and not meant for editing of any sort. ---------- messages: 1585 nosy: EricKow, WorldMaker, beschmi, droundy, tommy priority: wishlist status: unread title: darcs get --no-working-directory ____________________________________ Darcs issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue431> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
