On 2005-07-04, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The trouble is that not all repositories are created by init or get.
>> They can reasonably be, e.g. tar'd, ftp'd, or rsync'd,
>
> Is it really "reasonable"? I mean, is it really an accepted practice?
> I know that CVS or Subversion users do it all the time, to be able to
> work disconnected but, with darcs, what could be the point in such
> copying?
Yes. It's very reasonable. Recently I went on a trip and wanted to bring
a bunch of darcs repos on a laptop. So I just copied my "perl"
directory, which had many darcs repos in it.
For me, it's much more important that repos be easy to copy than that
they have unique IDS, especially considering that patch ids themselves
are "nearly unique".
> As you wrote, collision would just be a nuisance, not a showstopper so
> I believe my idea still hold (and there is a workaround: when you copy
> a repository, you can edit the ID file in _darcs/prefs).
I would prefer if i didn't have to remember to do this for every repo
that I move to another machine, especially when I can't tell by looking
if the repo has been copied or not.
Mark
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