[darcs-users] TortoiseDarcs

[Edwin Thomson]

hoijarvi wrote:
> I have tried to contact the developers, but
> their old mailing addresses seem to be dead.

There's never been a lot of online discussion about TortoiseDarcs, and 
it's all been on the darcs-* lists.  I haven't done any active 
development on TortoiseDarcs for some time, since it got to the stage 
where it was good enough for internal use, and there's always been 
something higher-priority to do.


> For a while I have being wishing for a 64 bit version.
> Explorer extensions compiled for 32 bits do not work with 64
> bit. There is fortunately a workaround: TortoiseDarcs works
> from the devstudio file open dialog boxes.

There's another workaround - run the 32-bit version of Explorer, which 
is still around in \WINDOWS\SysWOW64.


> And now when darcs 2.0 is out, it is time to test if they
> work together or not. 

It won't work with hashed repositories. TortoiseDarcs works out which 
files to show as changed by looking for the corresponding files in the 
pristine cache and comparing timestamps.


> Just yesterday, I downloaded the 40 MB source. I also
> downloaded the 80 MB darcs repository, but I can't get it to
> work. "darcs repair" complains missing pristine. Any ideas?

Sorry for the rather bloated download - it's all rather hacked together 
I wasn't, in the end, sure which  files are built, which are available 
with the system and which are needed.

To get it all, create an empty 'pristine' folder (I think this stage 
used to be unnecessary), then do a repair and a revert.

Edwin