[darcs-users] Re: fptools in darcs now available

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> Actually, now that I think about it, optimize --checkpoint *also* is worse
> than an "initial record", which is one of the things that darcs has trouble
> with--but Ian has largely fixed in darcs-unstable.

IMHO, we should use a different format for checkpoints -- hunk patches
from the empty tree are not a good idea.

Changing the on-disk format of patches will help a lot.

                                        Juliusz