[darcs-users] quadratic _user_ time when recording!

[David Roundy]

On Jan 7, 2008 4:40 AM, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isaac Dupree wrote:
> > This is strictly(?) a user-interface bug:
> >
> > I have lots of unrecorded changes (say, n hunks).  I want to record them
> > into logical patches (say, m patches... m is likely proportional to n).
> >   Darcs can only record one patch at once, so I have to go through the
> > decreasing list of hunks each time... O(n*m) of my human time!
>
> Emacs and darcsum mode alleviate this quite a bit, becauase you get to
> navigate the list of hunks in the editor and select/deselect the ones you want.

fwiw, this is why the --gui option was in darcs, but noone wanted to
maintain it (including myself), so it got dropped.  A lot of the
trouble was the use of wxhaskell, which is pretty severely
unmaintained.

David