[darcs-users] hashed repository issue

[Dan Pascu]

On Monday 08 December 2008, Dan Pascu wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2008, Eric Kow wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 18:17:15 +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> > > I tried today to experiment a bit with a darcs-2 hashed repository
> > > format. I added an empty file then made 4 changes and recorded
> > > them. I was surprised to find that the hashed pristine directory
> > > did contain 11 files. Every recorded change to a single file added
> > > 2 more.
> >
> > Does the darcs optimize command have any effect here?
>
> Yes it does, but it is not a viable solution to have to constantly run
> darcs optimize when you have too many files, from fearing that you may
> exceed them and get an error. Not to mention the slowness a flattened
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here I meant "exceed the limit". Sorry for the confusion.

> directory with that many files will introduce anyway.



-- 
Dan