[darcs-users] darcs, lost in space

Vigor van Ort vigor.vanort at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 14:57:46 UTC 2005


I just installed darcs the other day because it sounded interesting. 
I had been leaning towards BitKeeper for an open source project, but
the latest licensing debacle is giving me second thoughts.

So for a very small project that I just started, I decided to store in
darcs as a test.  So far, I have 8 patches (as found in
_darcs/patches), totaling about 30Kb - a 20k import and several small
patches.

I had created the repo on my local system, and then yesterday I copied
it over to a server and used 'darcs get' to make a local copy through
ssh.  Since then I made one or two small patches and successfully did
a couple of 'darcs push' from my local copy.  So, I thought everything
was working fine, and I have been learning my way around darcs
command.

Until today.  I just made another patch, and when I do 'darcs push',
it goes away and never comes back.  The darcs process has racked up 15
minutes of CPU time as of this writing on the remote server, and is
going strong.  The patch is less then 3k and touches only a couple
files.   I tried aborting the push and doing 'darcs check' and 'darcs
optimize' on the server, but both return immediately saying there is
nothing to do.

Now, I don't want to shit on your program, but I have to wonder what
could possibly take so long with such a small patch when there is only
1 developer and no conflicts!?

On my local side I am running darcs-stable, current as of today.  On
the remote end I was running darcs-1.0.2, but then I tried upgrading
to darcs-stable head, but the behavior is the same.

Any ideas?

regards,
Vigor




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