[darcs-users] darcs patch: Import relevant bits of gorsvet, for now... (and 16 more)

[Trent W. Buck]

Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> writes:

> [...] the only thing I can think of is endianity, so the binary index
> is platform independent (although it should be pretty safe either way,
> since the index would automatically fix itself on first use).

What happens in the following situation?

  /srv/vcs/foo is a Darcs repository stored on NFS.

  Alice uses Debian/i386 to access foo with Darcs 2.3.
  She runs "darcs whatsnew".

  Bob uses Debian/PPC to access fo with Darcs 2.4.
  He also runs "darcs whatsnew" -- at the same time as Alice.