[darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

Ben Coburn btcoburn at silicodon.net
Fri Feb 1 00:40:41 UTC 2008


On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:16, David Roundy wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:10:15AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> I see no real benefit to defaulting to a quick get: if that's what  
>> the
>> user wanted, Ctrl-C is her friend.  Just make sure to prominently
>> explain how to get a partial repo (preferably a cut-and-paste-able
>> command line) as well as the (default) full repo on your Downloads  
>> and
>> For Testers pages.
>
> Incidentally, the code I've just pushed adds a note explaining that  
> you can
> get a lazy repository by hitting ctrl-C.
>

So "darcs get http://example.net/foobar" + ctrl-C does not produce a  
broken repository.... That's a very slick feature!

[Also glad to see "darcs get" not be lazy by default for all the above  
mentioned reasons.]

Regards, Ben Coburn




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