[darcs-users] dvcs article

[zooko]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Tommy Pettersson wrote:

> Darcs (and SVK) are "not recommended", because the alternatives can  
> all handle large repos, whereas darcs can not

Sounds like a reasonable recommendation.  I would be interested in  
having some automated generation of graphs of darcs performance and  
scalability, generated by the buildbot.

> The article also describes darcs' repo-is-a-branch-is-a-repo as  
> inflexible compared to the competitors. This puzzles me, because I  
> find this freedom *extremely* flexible. But I have not used any of  
> the other systems, so I don't know what I'm missing out on.

Yes, this is a common criticism of darcs.  I can't tell whether there  
is really some advantage to the way other dvcs's have separate  
notions of branches and of repos, or whether the users of those  
systems are mistakenly thinking that darcs's branch==repo causes some  
problems that it doesn't.

Regards,

Zooko
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