On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:01:05PM +0200, Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I start my involvement in darcs with a (hopefully) small
> question:
> 
> Would it be possible to make better use of checkpoints?

Hi,

The partial part *heh* of darcs is underdeveloped and
undertested.  So yes, checkpoints could be better used.
One problem, it seems to me, is that changes to the "normal"
repo handling code often doesn't work with partial repos and
therefore introduce new bugs, so one improvement could be
a better layer of abstraction for hiding partial repos from
higher levels of code.


[snipped ideas for checkpoints]
> Is this possible? Planned?

It is... surely welcome if you want to work on it. :-)

Hm, but I think that automatic filling of a partial repo is
of limited use.  If the repo is remote you might not want
"unasked for" network accesses just because you're browsing
a repo's history.  If the repo is local, there is not much
point in making it partial, since patches are hardlinked.


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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