[darcs-users] http://code.haskell.org/darcs/packs is back

[Florent Becker]

Hi list,

during the sprint, team Paris' mission was to implement packs of patches
to speed up get. The idea was to put several patches in the same file,
in order to reduce latency while downloading. This goal was not reached
during the sprint. We produced a wiki page
http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Packs_Specification, and now there is a
repository http://code.haskell.org/darcs/packs where the implementation
has started. The darcs there is able to read a repository in which some
patch are found inside packs, that is a compressed file containing
several patches. Pack creation does not happen now, but should be
implemented via a darcs optimize --pack command. This would pack all the
patches which are under a tag, since they are less susceptible to be
cherry-picked. It would probably be run when using darcs tag.

Packs are coming soon!

Florent