[darcs-users] Any darcs 2 incompatibilities when using the old fashioned repo format?

[Max Battcher]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> Mark Stosberg wrote:
>>> Although, once I spell it out like that, I see that the darcs 1 binary is never
>>> talking to the hashed repo, so I might as well use the 'darcs-2' format with
>>> the darcs 2 binary??
>> No, because you can't push/pull between darcs-2 format and 
>> darcs-1/hashed formats.  Hashed format is backwards compatible, darcs-2 
>> format is not.
> 
> Thanks for the response, Max. Perhaps I wasn't clear: The darcs-2 repo would be
> automatically mirrored to an old-fashioned repo, which the darcs 1 binary would
> pull from.
 >
> Unless I can't generate some kind of strange conflict situation that won't flow
> properly from the darcs-2 format to the old-fashioned format (using a darcs 2
> binary), I think this should work.

You can't do that with darcs-2 format, even with darcs 2 binary.  You 
get a compatibility error if you push from a darcs-2 repo to a darcs-1 
repo, or vice-versa.  Darcs-2 format is non-backward-compatible in a 
number of ways and darcs won't even let you attempt cross-version 
pulls/pushes...

You could build a mirror system between darcs-1 and darcs-2 with Tailor 
or a similar tool, but I'm not sure how well that would work in practice...

> The compatibilty chart on your blog post was helpful.

Thanks.

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