[darcs-users] Re: [darcs #368] Proposal: unique repository ID

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 06:12:26PM +0100,
 Jamie Webb <j at jmawebb.cjb.net> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> The trouble is that not all repositories are created by init or get.
> They can reasonably be, e.g. tar'd, ftp'd, or rsync'd,

Is it really "reasonable"? I mean, is it really an accepted practice?
I know that CVS or Subversion users do it all the time, to be able to
work disconnected but, with darcs, what could be the point in such
copying?

> However, provided no functionality depends on absolute uniqeness,

As you wrote, collision would just be a nuisance, not a showstopper so
I believe my idea still hold (and there is a workaround: when you copy
a repository, you can edit the ID file in _darcs/prefs).