[darcs-users] Faster get proposal

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sat Dec 11 16:09:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:23:38PM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 13:47 schrieb David Roundy:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:22:45AM +0200, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> > > * Serious users want usually the whole thing
> >
> > True.
> 
> I strongly doubt this. Usually, "serious users" have one or few projects
> that they are "serious" about and many others that they just use,
> downloading the source once, maybe doing some fixes but never digging
> deeply into the history.
> 
> And even for your major projects, you would usually only get the whole
> source once and work with it then. Local copies and branches of the
> repository would usually also be created using --partial or more
> complicated options.

No, complete local copies are always fast and on unixy systems where hard
links are possible are also disk-efficient, so local copies are usually
complete.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net




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