I would gladly contribute to darcs if I could use it. And I would use it if it was fast (at worst twice as slow as git) and stable for the simple things that i want to do. So this is a chicken and egg problem for me.
Maybe if you can gut darcs into a really simple and basic vcs that is fast and really really stable, and allow plugins that wont compromise your repository then I would gladly use it and contribute in areas where i can improve it. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Lele Gaifax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:41:16 +0900 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH writes: >> >> > > So if I'm pulling from/pushing to a darcs-2-format repo, my >> > > local repo must be darcs-2 as well? >> > >> > Given that darcs2 has a different format, that's kinda obvious. >> >> No, it's not obvious. In fact, Bazaar does such things (although I >> think mostly in restricted contexts, like "lightweight checkouts"). >> >> It would be nice if someone could explore the possibility of >> transforming patches to push/pull across formats. > > It's not (just) a matter of "format": AFAIK, the format itself isn't > changed so much, between darcs-1 and darcs-2 (and I believe that > what's called "hashed" format has actually the same "on-disk" > representation); what's changing between the two is the semantic, that > is, the same patch is handled in a different way, in other words, they > have different meanings. That's why darcs cannot exchange the same > patch between the two semantics (see "Changes in semantics" on > http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DarcsTwo). > >> Apparently information would be lost going from darcs2 -> darcs1, >> but it might be enough for people to do gradual migrations to the >> new format. > > I'm not aware of such a lost: the primitive patch kinds are the same, > and the metadata that describe the named patches carry the same > information. > > ciao, lele. > -- > nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri > real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
