[darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

[Max Battcher]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> The consequences of moving to the darcs-2 format are a bit unclear to
> me. For instance, I'd like to keep my main (export) repo in darcs-1
> format, in order to make it as accessible as possible (Ubuntu still
> ships with darcs-1.0.9, and that's a fairly cutting edge
> distribution.)  Can I convert my working repos to darcs-2?  Should I?
> How about darcs-hashed?  In short, I'd like to see examples of
> recommended migration strategies, and associated benefits.

Does my article seem to answer most/all of these?  I just realized that 
maybe a summary table or two might help...  I'll add something like the 
following to the next update, perhaps:

=======  =================  =================
Format   Darcs 1 push/pull  Darcs 2 push/pull
=======  =================  =================
darcs-1  Yes                Yes
hashed   **No**             Yes
darcs-2  **No**             Yes
=======  =================  =================

          ===================================
          Convertible to...
          ===================================
=======  =======  =============  ===========
Format   darcs-1  hashed         darcs-2
=======  =======  =============  ===========
darcs-1   -       Yes            Yes (Once!)
hashed   Yes       -             Yes (Once!)
darcs-2  **No**   **No**          -
=======  =======  =============  ===========

(All conversions performed by darcs 2 operations.)

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