Ketil Malde wrote: > Expanding a bit on this: The page at > <http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DarcsTwo> asks for people to hammer > the hashed and darcs-2 repo formats. While I haven't really had any > trouble with the old darcs-1 format, I can still experiment a bit.
Hashed format is immediately useful even if you haven't experienced trouble with darcs-1 format, because it offers nicer lazy loading of patches (particularly when using a global cache) and the hashed pristine is no longer susceptible to "stupid scripts and tricks" corrupting the repository by thinking a pristine file is a working file. (I've had issues with that with broken software and newbie developers.) Darcs-2 format supposedly avoids, if not eliminates, the dreaded conflict hangs and while I haven't been bit by this in a personal darcs 1 repository (knock on wood) it's certainly a very common complaint... > However, the page looks to be a bit stale, can somebody in the know > look over it and update it so that it is current? It'd be nice if > there were some suggestions or a 'howto' on how to go about testing. I decided to take a stab at a "User's Guide" for Darcs 2 with regard to format issues, distilling from both the manual and the aforementioned wiki page. Here's the first draft: http://blog.worldmaker.net/2008/aug/04/users-guide-darcs-2/ I'd love any comments on this quick document, and if there's no technical problems with it and it fits "official policy" I offer to rewrite it into wiki format as a replacement/augmentation of the current developer-oriented DarcsTwo link on the wiki front page. I may also add suggestions on how to add --hashed and --darcs-2 as defaults in a user's default file (suggesting hashed as a default for get and darcs-2 as a default for init). -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
