[darcs-users] Re: File name too long

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 18:25, Peter Simons wrote:
> David Roundy writes:
>  > But I was thinking more of the issue of converting existing
>  > repositories, which would require converting their existing dates
>  > into ISO format, which sounds difficult.
>
> I have code that parses date specs into 'CalendarTime' in my parser
> for RFC 2822. It should be trivial to modify that to read darcs'
> format. Just give me a minute ...
>
> Personally, I would provide a converter to rename the patch files for
> existing repositories. But either way is fine for me, I don't have
> strong feelings about this.

Well, if darcs can read both formats, the conversion procedure would be to 
simply pull to an empty repo (or 'get'?) and rename the repos, right?

Aggelos