[darcs-users] darcs upgrade HOWTO

[zooko]

Hi Max:

Thanks for sharing your recommendations.  I think the difference  
between yours and mine is the difference in strategy between "move to  
the better format when you have a good opportunity" vs. "if it ain't  
broke don't fix it".  My advice was based on the assumption that  
darcs-1-format works for most people, and that hashed-format works  
for most other people.  ;-)

I was tailoring my suggestions for "casual" darcs users, i.e. people  
who are not particularly motivated to explore and debug and  
contribute to darcs itself, but who just want to use a convenient  
revision control tool.

For those users, I think it is important that (a) they have a simple  
recipe that they can follow and (b) they understand the backwards- 
compatibility implications of following it.

On the other hand, I don't disagree with your suggestions, I just  
think they may be unnecessary for some casual users.

Regards,

Zooko