[darcs-users] zlib crcs: yet another update

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Eric Kow wrote:

> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 21:16:14 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

>> It particularly needs testing on a corrupt hashed-format repo, and on
>> Windows.
>
> Attached is a list of hashed repositories on code.haskell.org (including
> darcs 2 repos)
>
> Would a giant tarball of all the repositories on code.haskell.org be a
> good thing here?  I have a 400M tarball in my cho home directory
> (~kowey/obliterated-20.tgz) which contains repos that we did the timing
> tests on way back when c.h.o upgraded to darcs 2.  It's each repo minus
> 20 patches, though and I don't think I can find the original.

Thanks, I'll take a look at those repos.

> One thing to note is that some users have very large global caches, so
> darcs gzcrcs on any one repo could be very slow.  I wonder if recycling
> the --no-cache option would be useful for real users, or if it's only
> relevant to folks like me who are purposefully trying to test this out.
> Would it be useful maybe to advise moving the global cache out of the
> way until the user is ready to cope with it and after it's been
> checked/repaired once.

I think --no-cache would be a very good idea. I'll do that.

Ganesh