[darcs-users] Why is darcs using the cache when I haven't told it to?

[Trent W. Buck]

Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:

> I was investigating why darcs was taking so long to do operations on a tiny 
> repo I just created, and it turns out that it's looking in ~/.darcs/cache, 
> which in my case has grown huge (and is NFS-mounted).  I distinctly 
> remember turning off the cache at some point, and indeed I have no 
> ~/.darcs/sources file.
>
> What's going on?  How do I turn off the cache?

Replace ~/.darcs/cache with a symlink to somewhere else that's on local
disk.  This is a bug, see http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1326.