[darcs-users] experience report from patch-tag (hung push on fork of patch-tag)

[Thomas Hartman]

more info:

thartman at patch-tag:~/patch-tag>du -hs _darcs/
31M	_darcs/

and, this was about 700 commits.


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Thomas
Hartman<thomashartman1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> So, this is rather embarassing.
>
> I tried forking patch tag, as follows:
>
> darcs get the patch tag code repo on local machine
> create new (empty) repo via the patch-tag interface
> darcs push to patch tag.
>
> The process hunt (10 minutes, no feedback).
>
> local machine:
> thartman at ubuntu:~/patch-tag-dev>darcs changes | wc -l
> 2210
> thartman at ubuntu:~/patch-tag-dev>darcs --version
> 2.2.1 (release)
> thartman at ubuntu:~/patch-tag-dev>
>
> server:
> thartman at patch-tag:~/patch-tag>darcs changes | wc -l
> 2204
> thartman at patch-tag:~/patch-tag>darcs --version
> 2.2.1 (release)
> thartman at patch-tag:~/patch-tag>
>
> I can successfully perform this action if pushing to a virgin local
> repo, takes about a minute. I can also push to patch-tag server if I
> wipe history and push just the files as a first commit.
>
> Still, this struck me as pretty bad behavior. Has anyone had similar
> experience, or is there documentations on the conditions that can lead
> to a hung push?
>
> How does darcs hold up when hosted in darcs? Any similar problems?
>
> If any of the darcs devs would like to have access to the patch tag
> repo to reproduce this themselves the are welcome.
>
> Doh!
>
> thomas.
>
> --
> Thomas Hartman
>
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