[darcs-devel] [issue2322] a command to turn lazy repositories into complete ones

[Ben Franksen]

Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
> New submission from Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>:
> 
> Darcs makes us use lazy repositories all over the place but there is no 
> official command to turn a lazy repository into a complete one.
> But one could want to complete a repository to publish it via http for 
> instance.
> 
> On the top of my mind, what we recommended on IRC to people who asked 
> for that is:
> 
> * run darcs changes -a -v  (prints every patch of the history on 
> standard output)
> * run darcs repair  (replays the whole repository)
> 
> What about introducing 'darcs repair --complete', that would ensure all 
> files are present into the repository? That would be much faster than 
> the above two solution. Or we could introduce a 'darcs complete' 
> command.

A good point and one I have also wondered about. I like 'darcs repair --
complete', a new command feels a bit heavy weight to me.

Cheers
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