> darcs --version
1.0.3rc2 (release candidate 2)

I've switched over some open source projects to using darcs, and I
love it.  But darcs has an incredibly steep performance drop-off.  I
have 1 patch (of 7) to pull from a development branch.  Darcs has been
running overnight.  Even though I added '--verbose' flag, the last
time it displayed anything was "diffing dir..." about 8.5 hours ago.

26932 pts/11   R+   520:14      0  2416 19399 18572  1.7 darcs pull
--all --verbose

This repo contains gettext derived translation files in a separate
darcs repo.  The problem with gettext translation files is that
gettext includes line numbers of where the translation came from.  So
when the source code is updated, the gettext files have lots of small
changes which just change the line number information.

So far after my switch from an unnamed SCM system, I have 7 patches in
darcs.  Yesterday I generated a new update on my development branch
and tried to 'pull' it to my release branch.  I let darcs run
overnight, but it has not yet finished.

I've done such merges in the past in other revision control systems. 
I normally don't expect it to take more then a few seconds at the
most, so this is so far about 4 orders of magnitude slower, and not
showing any signs of progress.


Is there any light at the end of the tunnel -- improvements in the
works that will address this weakness, or am I destined to maintain
two separate SCM systems (darcs for code, something else for
translation files)?

regards,
v.

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