[darcs-users] current status of darcs

[William Morgan]

Hi all,

A project I'm working on wants to switch away from CVS to SVN. I'm
thinking about recommending darcs to them instead. I can make many
convincing arguments for the usefulness of distributed, changset-based
VC, but what I don't have a sense of is how stable and reliable darcs
is. I'll be in big trouble if things go awry. :)

In particular:

1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of conflicts can
   cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport that is a year
   old. Is this still an issue? Is it a common occurrence? In such a
   situation, is it easy to solve, or difficult?

2. How actively maintained is darcs? Is it losing steam? Are bugs being
   fixed faster than they're being introduced? The last release was 10
   months ago---that could be a good sign or a bad one.

3. I've seen mentions of using Tailor to back up darcs into e.g. CVS.
   This would certainly help people feel more comfortable, but how
   reliable is such a setup?

Alternatively, if there's another VCS I should be considering
(commercial or not), I'd be interested. I really like being able to pick
out individual hunks when creating a changeset, and it's not clear to me
that the darcs alternatives offer that.

Thanks for any pointers!

-- 
William <wmorgan-darcs at masanjin.net>