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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH writes:

 > > So if I'm pulling from/pushing to a darcs-2-format repo, my local repo
 > > must be darcs-2 as well?
 > 
 > Given that darcs2 has a different format, that's kinda obvious.

No, it's not obvious.  In fact, Bazaar does such things (although I
think mostly in restricted contexts, like "lightweight checkouts").

It would be nice if someone could explore the possibility of
transforming patches to push/pull across formats.  Apparently
information would be lost going from darcs2 -> darcs1, but it might be
enough for people to do gradual migrations to the new format.