[darcs-users] Need help getting off darcs

[Miklos Vajna]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:10:03PM +1100, James D Sadler <james at jamesdsadler.com> wrote:
> I am convinced that if I can convince darcs to allow me to pull one
> patch at a time everything will work out just fine.  So what I want to
> know is this:  can I manipulate the inventory file so that it only
> contains a reference to one patch, then pull it, then subsequently put
> each patch back in the inventory file (in order) and pull again,
> rinse, lather, repeat until all patches have been pulled and expect it
> to work?  The problem seems to stem from the fact that the difference
> between the number of patches in the source and target repos is large
> and darcs takes its time performing some scan over all of the repo to
> work out what to pull.  If I can convince darcs temporarily that there
> is only one patch in the source repo to start with (by modifying the
> inventory file) perhaps I can work around that issue.

you can create a wrapper like:

http://vmiklos.hu/project/tailor/tailor-wrap/darcs

this is to speed up

        darcs pull --all --quiet --match "hash <id>" /path/to/repo

but you can modify it as you want.

- VMiklos
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