> Is darcs known to be difficult over a high-latency internet connection?
Yep. Some parts of the protocol are not pipelined, and some parts of Darcs
use multiple ssh connections sequentially.
> I have satellite-based internet and so a considerable ping (1-2 seconds
> typically). Pushes & pulls are terribly slow (often several minutes).
Yep. A single ssh connection takes a number of round-trips.
> I wonder if there are helpful coping strategies (other than leaving
> darcs).
Annoy the Darcs developers until they fix issue 1168, and fix whatever
issue causes Darcs to open multiple ssh connections.
Other than that, you could try to get the ssh control-master feature to
work around the multiple ssh connections issue. You could also decide to
give up on push, and use darcs send with a procmail script at the other end.
Juliusz
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