We are a five-person team who use Darcs for version control. We are quite happy with this, but occasionally our workday is disrupted by conflicts that send Darcs spinning into an endless, CPU-gobbling loop from hell.
Most Darcs user should be familiar with this issue: http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/ConflictMisery As far as I know it has existed since day one, and discussed many times: http://marc.info/?l=darcs-users&m=113600774107991&w=2 Not too long ago two developers wasted an entire day when a long-running branch simply could not be merged into the trunk; we were on a deadline, and the solution was a manual, time-consuming process where it was difficult to prove with certainty that the end result was fully consistent. We have gradually realized that the probability of hitting this problem grows proportionally to the age of any branch. This is a considerable and costly problem for us -- developer time is simply too expensive to be wasted on fighting the version control system. We have patiently been waiting for a fix, but there seems to be nothing on the horizon. With all this in mind, we would like to try throwing some money at the problem by putting up a bounty. We want to offer something in the order of a couple of thousand dollars at a minimum, to be negotiated with anyone willing to take up the offer. Are there any takers? Alexander. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
