> From: David Leuschner <[email protected]> > > I think Darcs should be changed that it > > 1. outputs a message if it tries to access a repository other than > that given on the command line > (this should be true for "local" files, too, because NFS/AFS could > be down!)
I don't think I'd want to see this in normal operation, but definitely at higher verbosity. > > ?2. has a short timeout independent of the operating system timeout > (i.e. 4 seconds) +1 > > 3. never tries a failed source again What if the source failed because you're working on a computer with a flaky wireless connection (obviously I deal with this too regularly...)? I think it would be better, and more darcsy, to query the user with "I couldn't connect to the repository at url, should I permanently remove it as a source? (ynN)" where 'n' means "no, not this time" and 'N' means "no, don't ask again" > These things definitely need some more thought and discussion. But > they should not get so much thought that nothing is changed and users > keep switching. I don't think backwards-compatibility is a major > concern: things should change and get better as long as there are > enough users left to notice. +1 > > After having said all that: our company still uses exclusively Darcs > and all in all we're very happy. Darcs is great and has only very few > small annoyances and they're no problem if you know what to do. We'd > love to see some improvements, like > > * a record more supporting classifying changes into groups and then > either record these groups as patches or reverting them +1, although I've been able to accomplish pretty much the same goals by using --ask. > * a possibility to re-select the hunks that were selected the last > time (but then I hit "q" accidentily or the tests didn't succeed) +1 > * and of course rebase :-) I must be about the only person on the planet who doesn't find rebase useful. Maybe I push to a public repo too often. John L. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
