The manual says: By default the patches in the repository are compressed. These use less disk space, which translates into less bandwidth if the repository is accessed remotely. [...] You may want to uncompress the patches when you've got enough disk space but are running out of physical memory.
AFAICT the only way uncompressed files would require less memory is if Darcs kept both the compressed AND uncompressed copies of the file in memory. I seem to recall that this was a problem in older releases, but was fixed around the 2.1 or 2.2 release. That being the case, can we get rid of these options, and (eventually) get rid of support for uncompressed patches altogether? _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
