[darcs-devel] patch for lazy partial repos

[Kevin Quick]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:24:33 -0700, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>
wrote:

> > Detailed comments
> > -----------------
> > > +           DarcsNoArgOption [] ["lazy"] Lazy
> > > +           "get files as needed",
> >
> > get *patch* files as needed, maybe?
>
> I'd like to extend this to inventory files as well.  Currently, the code
> doesn't handle it, because we wouldn't have url stubs for the patch files
> pointed to by the inventory file, but it shouldn't be *too* much trouble to
> extend things so we can only download the parts ot the inventory that we
> need, which would be great (or I think it'd be great, anyhow).

For the novitiate user that isn't intimately familiar with the internals
of darcs, the distinction may just add confusion.  My suggestion would
be to further Eric's direction and have the help output simply say
"get patches only when needed" since this might make the most sense
to the user reading "darcs get --help" output.  Code comments and/or
documentation could then clarify the actual mechanisms for the
darcs internists.

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Kevin Quick
quick at org after sparq
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