"Robin Bate Boerop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The 'darcs record' is trying to add 211 MB of files to the repo,
> spread across about 30,000 files.

Here's the new "darcs init --help" output I've been working on:

| The "darcs initialize" command turns the current directory into a
| Darcs repository.  Any existing files and subdirectories become
| UNSAVED changes in the working tree: record them with "darcs add -r"
| and "darcs record".
|
| When converting a project to Darcs from some other VCS, translating
| the full revision history to native Darcs patches is recommended.
| (The Darcs wiki lists utilities for this.)  Because Darcs is optimized
| for small patches, simply importing the latest revision as a single
| large patch can PERMANENTLY degrade Darcs performance in your
| repository by an order of magnitude.

In particular, the previous paragraph probably applies to you.

| This command creates the "_darcs" directory, which stores version
| control metadata.  It also contains per-repository settings in
| _darcs/prefs/, which you can read about in the user manual.
|
| In addition to the default darcs-2 format, there are two
| backwards-compatible formats for the _darcs directory.  If all
| contributors to your project have darcs 2.0.0 or higher, use the
| default format.
|
| If some contributors still run Darcs below 2.0.0, you need to use the
| "old-fashioned inventory" format for any repositories those
| contributors access.  Because patches cannot be shared between darcs-2
| and old-fashioned repositories, other project repos should use the
| intermediary "hashed" format.
|
| Darcs will create a hashed repository by default when you "darcs get"
| a repository in old-fashioned inventory format.  Once all contributors
| have upgraded to Darcs 2.0.0 or later, use "darcs convert" to convert
| the project to the darcs-2 format.
|
| Initialize is commonly abbreviated to "init".

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