[darcs-devel] [issue809] Lazy the default?

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Excerpts from Lele Gaifax's message of Tue Apr 22 17:30:43 +0200 2008:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:29:25 -0000
> Juliusz Chroboczek <bugs at darcs.net> wrote:
> 
> > I hereby object.  Lazy patch downloading is a stupid idea, it
> > completely breaks Darcs' largest advantage -- easy disconnected
> > operation.  Lazy should not be the default, it ought to need to be
> > explicitly enabled by users who want the flexibility of CVS combined
> > with the speed of Monotone.
> 
> AFAICT, it is not the default: by default it says, as soon as it can,
> "from now on you can hit Ctrl-C to get a lazy repo", but it grabs the
> whole repo.
> 
> So maybe it's just the manual that needs an adjustment.

Moreover there is many ways to force the downloading of all patches:

$ darcs changes -i
$ darcs whatsnew does_not_exists
...

I  think that the new default (with the message saying that you can Ctrl-C) is
a very good one.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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