On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:04:56PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > When can/should we EOL the darcs-1 repository format?
We cannot switch to hashed nor darcs-2 format because we have very large repositories. We are patiently waiting for the hashed-storage work to change the structure of the pristine cache from all files in a single directory into some kind of hierarchy. The benchmarking I did on our repos suggested that some commands would take a couple times longer on a hashed repository. I am very grateful to Petr for his work on hashed storage as a possible solution for large repositories. I am also concerned, as Zooko pointed out, that switching to darcs-2 format will be very inconvenient. When we get to that point, I have to make sure that the new format is better than the old format, in quality as well as speed. I do not want to disrupt the lives of all our programmers without some pretty obvious benefits. I also believe it would be very nice if a repo that is being converted could get hints from already converted clones (see issue1040). That would make the whole conversion process less daunting. -kolibrie _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
