[darcs-devel] Re: problem in the stable repo?

[Simon Marlow]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> Pulling the stable branch seems to hang for me.  One of my local copies 
> of the darcs stable repo is 151 patches behind, and when I try to pull 
> it darcs hangs - I gave it 20 mins or so before giving up.
> 
> Having got a copy of the stable branch with a fresh get, I tried to get 
> back to 1.0.9 using 'darcs unpull --from-tag=1.0.9', and darcs hangs 
> again.  Perhaps there are some problem patches in the repo post-1.0.9?

Update: pulling the patches in small batches helped.  There was one particular 
patch that took 5 minutes to pull:

Thu Apr  5 01:06:16 BST 2007  David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>
   * add support for partial and lazy downloading of hashed repos.

but after that the rest pulled without any problems.

Cheers,
	Simon