>> >> But when I try to grab my own repo through a website I get an error >> about the inventory directory being missing. >> My repo doesnt have an inventory directory, it does have an >> 'inventories' directory though. >> What am I doing wrong here? >> My repo is hosted at >> http://darcs.mmmpie.com/hb > > It seams to be a fire wall problem. The host darcs.mmpie.com > doesn't respond to www connections (port 80).
Laptops just aren't meant to be servers. Not so much a firewall, just asleep. I investigated the problem I had with the repo, and I have replicated the contents of the _darcs directory. The source of the problem is my use of a darcs-2 repo. What command should I use to get a copy of a darcs-2 repo? darcs get http://some-darcs-2.repo doesnt work, do I need to pass some sort of argument to make it try to parse the darcs-2 format? This just works when the repo is local ( file system ). So far I have been using darcs for a few days, and it has failed pretty much every expected operation. - The windows build does not support http out of the box and the installation instructions do not mention this. - darcs initialize does not create darcs-2 repos by default ( why would I bother downloading darcs 2 then? ) - darcs get doesnt work with darcs-2 repos, cant find any docs on using this with darcs-2 repos - it is really really slow. when I perform a darcs whatsnew -l I can sit and count as the 3000 files it checks get counted off. A quick wrist check puts it at around 10 seconds - the patches I created took so long to apply that I gave up, after two days of running darcs apply. The patch files were about 60mb, and had changes to pretty much all 3000 files. - the first time I tried to apply a patch darcs failed with a stack overflow yes, there is some documentation about this, but how about a suggestion, or even rerun it for the user - I cant cherry pick patches out of my repo to send to someone else unless I have access to their copy of the repo or a context Thats just my experience so far. I will continue to use darcs. I really like the idea, and I really like not have a source server. But it has not been an easy process. User experience is one area where darcs could shine compared to other systems. Jon Hart. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
