[darcs-users] darcs patch: Hide the inefficient "darcs put" command.

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 01:39:53 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> IMO, hiding the command will not motivate anyone to fix it sooner,
> on the contrary it will most likely make people ignore it to the
> point when someone will say "Why do we keep this hidden command
> anyway?"  If anyone is seriously considering fixing it at some
> point, keeping it around as a constant reminder will at some point
> bother someone enough to fix it.

Indeed, what I'd really like is for put to be removed until someone
writes an implementation that behaves like get and has similar
resource consumption.  Hiding it means the code stays available but
isn't advertised, because currently it's just a proof-of-concept stub.


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