Excerpts from Max Battcher's message of Mon Aug 04 17:55:34 +0200 2008: > 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).
This document is all good to me! -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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