[darcs-users] Darcs get without hard links

Tomasz Zielonka tomasz.zielonka at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 11:03:35 UTC 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:24:46AM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:17:23AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > > I thought about creating a simple darcs-server. It would be an
> > > additional (perhaps hidden) darcs command, that would make darcs
> > > respond to requests on stdin/stdout. One kind of request would
> > > be to get a list of files, the other would be to invoke a darcs
> > > command.
> > 
> > One major downside of this approach is that it requires darcs on the
> > other side.
> 
> If there was no darcs on the other side, we could fall back to normal
> darcs-less operation. I think it could be done without making a mess
> of it.

I have a crazy idea - the darcs-server, I am talking about, could be
the same thing that is discussed the thread "Programmatic invocation"
on darcs-devel. Communication through stdin/stdout should be convenient
both for ssh connection and a GUI.

Best regards
Tomasz




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