[darcs-users] Faster get proposal

[Einar Karttunen]

On 07.12 22:59, Karel Gardas wrote:
> isn't checkpoint feature what you would like to use?
> Please read `What do you do when you've got lots of patches and releases
> in a repository?' on http://www.scannedinavian.org/DarcsWiki/BestPractices

No that is not a really good solution. 

This is because:
* Random users won't use extra options
* Serious users want usually the whole thing
* Having one large patch makes darcs very slow

This proposal could eliminate the problem of very slow darcs get for large 
(think linux kernel) repositories. 

> > On server a cron script would run:
> > cd /my/temporary/location
> > darcs get myrepo
> > (cd myrepo && tar czf ../current.tar.gz *)
> > mv myrepo.tar.gz myrepo/_darcs/

This should be current.tar.gz naturally.

- Einar Karttunen