[darcs-users] Initial impressions of darcs

[Kevin Smith]

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> What's wrong with just using multiple repositories? Some more organisation
> of the different "configurations" could also be achieved through the support
> of meta-repositories, 

Personally, I view this as the biggest problem with darcs. At a minimum, 
I want the SCM to manage the collection of branches (darcs does not). I 
really *don't* want a whole new repository for each branch. After using 
darcs successfully for several months, I have now stopped, due 
primarily[1] to that issue.

Aside from my irrational reasons, I view branch handling as very 
important for platforms that do not have hard links (MS Windows and 
cheap, ftp-only web hosts come to mind). In those cases, darcs branches 
are really expensive, as well as being confusing to manage (which they 
are on all platforms).

Scott's proposal (configurations via patchlines) sounds promising to me. 
Without some capability like that, darcs won't meet my needs.

Kevin

[1] The other significant reason is haskell--partly because I don't like 
the language, and partly because ghc can be difficult to install and use.