Hi Zooko, On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 13:21:29 -0700, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > It seems like I am finally free of the need to support darcs-1 > executables.
I hope this slow disappearance of darcs-1 executables from the face of the earth will benefit people by finally making the hashed improvements wider to a larger population. For example: I hear that when the new darcs.haskell.org comes online, it will have a darcs 2 on it. Maybe this means the ssh connection sharing will make darcs push a tiny bit less painful. > Maybe this means that "darcs init" should start generating darcs-2- > format repositories by default. Or else to be more conservative it > could require the user to specify either darcs-2 or --hashed. Darcs has been generating darcs-2 format repositories by default since Darcs 2.1 in 2008-10. Since Darcs 2.3 we have been fetching repositories as hashed by default even if the remote side is old-fashioned. Unfortunately, this will be perceived by most users as darcs get being very slow since many server side repos are still old-fashioned. The upcoming Darcs 2.4 will now detect old-fashioned repos on the server side and urge you to have the server-side folks run darcs optimize --upgrade to do an in-place upgrade to hashed (another new 2.4 feature). It takes soooo long for all this stuff to percolate out to the masses. I hope that once this is all more widespread, people will have fewer things to complain about! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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