[darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 08:04:06 UTC 2008


Excerpts from Max Battcher's message of Mon Aug 04 17:55:34 +0200 2008:
> Ketil Malde wrote:
> > Expanding a bit on this:  The page at
> > <http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DarcsTwo> asks for people to hammer
> > the hashed and darcs-2 repo formats.  While I haven't really had any
> > trouble with the old darcs-1 format, I can still experiment a bit.
> 
> Hashed format is immediately useful even if you haven't experienced 
> trouble with darcs-1 format, because it offers nicer lazy loading of 
> patches (particularly when using a global cache) and the hashed pristine 
> is no longer susceptible to "stupid scripts and tricks" corrupting the 
> repository by thinking a pristine file is a working file.  (I've had 
> issues with that with broken software and newbie developers.)
> 
> Darcs-2 format supposedly avoids, if not eliminates, the dreaded 
> conflict hangs and while I haven't been bit by this in a personal darcs 
> 1 repository (knock on wood) it's certainly a very common complaint...
> 
> > However, the page looks to be a bit stale, can somebody in the know
> > look over it and update it so that it is current?  It'd be nice if
> > there were some suggestions or a 'howto' on how to go about testing.
> 
> I decided to take a stab at a "User's Guide" for Darcs 2 with regard to 
> format issues, distilling from both the manual and the aforementioned 
> wiki page.  Here's the first draft:
> 
> http://blog.worldmaker.net/2008/aug/04/users-guide-darcs-2/
> 
> I'd love any comments on this quick document, and if there's no 
> technical problems with it and it fits "official policy" I offer to 
> rewrite it into wiki format as a replacement/augmentation of the current 
> developer-oriented DarcsTwo link on the wiki front page.  I may also add 
> suggestions on how to add --hashed and --darcs-2 as defaults in a user's 
> default file (suggesting hashed as a default for get and darcs-2 as a 
> default for init).

This document is all good to me! 

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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