Iago Abal wrote: > The 100% of people that I know they moved from Darcs to Git/Mercurial was > due to performance issues, they argued things like "Darcs is unusable when > you have more than N thousand of patches, even tagging frequently".
I am back working at Suite Solutions. When I worked here a few years ago, I instituted Darcs as the official VCS. Now I see that during my absence they have switched to Mercurial. They state two reasons: 1. Darcs was too slow to be usable. They were using an early Darcs 2, I think. Our repos tend to be hundred of directories with thousands or even tens of thousands of files. Usually a few of the files are big binary blobs, the rest XML text files of various sizes. They say it sometimes took Darcs a long time even to figure out what the changes were when they tried to do a record. Are the performance issues fixed now for that size repo? 2. TortoiseDarcs is bitrotted and unusable. TortoiseHg is powerful and user-friendly, and it is kept up to date in step with each release of Mercurial. For industrial users at least, hosting is not the issue. Though if that affects adoption in the FOSS world, I suppose it will also indirectly affect adoption in the industrial world. Regards, Yitz _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
