[darcs-users] solution to the "slow get" problem?
VMiklos
mamajom at axelero.hu
Thu Apr 7 13:54:08 UTC 2005
zooko at zooko.com wrote:
> Imagine that you are helping Andrew Morton try out darcs. Imagine that the
> first thing you tell him to do is to run "darcs get http://kernel.org/linus"
> to get a copy of Linus's darcs repo.
>
> Oops! It takes many hours and many hundreds of megabytes. Andrew loses
> interest in darcs.
>
> Okay, so you don't do that. Instead you make a .tar.bz2 of Linus's darcs repo
> and you tell Andrew to "wget http://kernel.org/linus.tar.bz2", then unpack the
> tarball and then proceed from there. Problem solved. Andrew goes on to
> appreciate the elegance (and speed!) of the common-case operations such as
> "darcs record".
>
> Now why doesn't darcs fetch such a tarball automatically when one types
> "darcs get http://kernel.org/linus"?
how would you let apache or any ftp server to create a tarball of the repo?
udv / greetings,
VMiklos
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