Thanks for your comments Ganesh, I have updated the proposal and submitted to the GSOC site. We can discuss it in detail later by irc.
Marcio. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/03/2014 06:32, Marcio Díaz wrote: > > Hi everyone, I've uploaded my proposal for the GSoC, you can see it here: > > > > http://darcs.net/GSoC/2014-Hashed-Files-And-Cache > > > > I would like to hear your comments. > > Some random comments - though of course you should be skeptical of > feature creep so don't just add everything I suggest to your proposal :-) > > - I really like the idea of "darcs undo". I think it might allow us to > remove some confirmation prompts from other operations. > > - Will the bash scripts described in weeks 3+4 be integrated with the > darcs test suite? It's also important that we don't regress on this in > future. > > - Are you also thinking about making individual repositories bucketed? > It raises bigger backwards compatibility problems (remote clients using > "darcs pull"/"darcs get" access the repo directly) but may be important > for big darcs repos. I suspect that we can actually defer this to a > future format migration. > > - Will you be able to benchmark on multiple platforms? I've personally > experienced very poor performance when my cache directory grew large on > my Windows laptop and I suspect it was worse than one might expect on > Linux, so it's worth looking at this in different scenarios. > > - I'm a little skeptical of the value of "darcs undelete", though it > does sound pretty cool in some ways. > > - One thing I would really like and that is somewhat related is a "darcs > archive" command that would take an existing repository, check for local > changes (with or without boring files, at the user's choice) and local > patches that aren't in upstream (as defined by the user), and replace > the repository with a bundle file containing just those local patches + > an extra one with any local changes. Just mentioning it in case it fits > in with anything else you're doing, though it isn't directly about the > global cache. > > - For "darcs optimize --global-cache" I would expect to give one or more > root folder (e.g. my home directory) and have it find all the darcs > repositories inside that folder. > > Cheers, > > Ganesh > >
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