[darcs-devel] [issue1042] I wish darcs-2 would do automatic darcs-1-compatibility.

[Zooko]

New submission from Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>:

Hm, I had what might be a good idea.  See this "best practices" doc  
which suggests that you maintain a darcs-1-format repository for your  
darcs-1-executable-using users, and that you also create a hashed- 
format repository for your darcs-2-executable-using users, and that  
you set up scripts to sync the two of them?

http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ 
DarcsTwo#head-98abd90796d98fd11798ca867157815e6fb4d1f3

Well, it occurs to me that this practice might be completely  
automatable -- darcs might be able to automatically maintain a  
darcs-1-compatible repository in parallel with the hashed-format  
repository, and to make them both available under the same path/URL.

If so, this would probably help people upgrade gracefully.

Regards,

Zooko
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