[darcs-users] Tracking other people's work - when things get more complicated.

[David Roundy]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:10:58PM +0100, Kalman Noel wrote:
> >     * Different branches of a project tend to be populated not only
> >     with different patches, but often with the same patches, [...].
> >     `darcs pull --all` will then download any such patch for every
> >     repository I pull into, which potentially means wasted network
> >     traffic as well as wasted disk space (no hard linking in this
> >     scenario!).
> 
> I'm replying to myself on this point, since I just read the relevant
> section in the manual:  There is `darcs optimize --relink --sibling`.
> Will the sibling given on the command line be remembered somehow?  Will
> this have an effect on network traffic?

No, I don't think this'll help much, but the hashed inventory format will
(see my other email).
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University