[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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