On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:45:52 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > The bug effecting me is that darcs v2 can't pull from a darcs v1 repo. > I'm not sure if all this partial/tag stuff is relevant as this happens > for me on a repo that has never been tagged when checking out without > --partial.
It's not. This partial/tag stuff you discovered is a whole other bug. The original issue you posted still has not been reproduced. Reinier, have you had any luck? > Having my version control system not be able to get at my > old code scares me a lot - not fixing it doesn't seem like an option. I realise it's a pretty scary thing to see, but in this particular case your data is perfectly safe. If you omit the --partial switch, it works fine. Likewise if the repository is available in a darcs 1 hashed format. I was thinking that maybe one thing darcs could do is start ignoring the --partial switch and just telling users it's deprecated and urging them to use hashed repositories and --lazy if they want faster downloads. The result of this action in your particular case is that darcs would have worked, just a bit more slowly. It's pretty radical because it means a lot of people using --partial suddenly get slower downloads, but as a means of reducing our liabilities (places for darcs to go wrong), it's an option that's worth considering. This is just part of a bigger picture of working out how to encourage people to start using the darcs 2 features (without necessarily using darcs v2 format repositories) that make a difference. Part of the problem we're facing in the darcs world is that we're still dragging a lot of darcs 1 business around. Anyway, I'll stress that I'm not saying we should do this. I'm just illustrating this as a possible means of focusing our development and moving the community forward. It's probably too much stick and not enough carrot though. Meanwhile, I think it would be helpful if somebody could put together a hashed mirror of the GHC and libraries repo on code.haskell.org. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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