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

[Thomas Hartman]

also, fwiw:

~/patch-tag-dev>darcs show repo
          Type: darcs
        Format: hashed, darcs-2
          Root: /home/thartman/patch-tag-dev
      Pristine: HashedPristine
         Cache: thisrepo:/home/thartman/patch-tag-dev,
cache:/home/thartman/.darcs/cache,
repo:tphyahoo at patch-tag.com:/r/patch-tag-dev
        Author: thomashartman1 at gmail.com
Default Remote: tphyahoo at patch-tag.com:/r/patch-tag-fork1
   Num Patches: 737


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Thomas
Hartman<thomashartman1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> After some more experiments, my push succeeded after 17 minutes.
>
> darcs send -O a patch
>
> yields a 47M .patch file. That's pretty big, and on top of that I seem
> to have internet throttling for outbound, which seems to explain
> what's going on. (Scp the patch file was also pretty slow.)
>
> Experientially though, scp has a nice status bar that says what's
> going on, and darcs push doesn't. That would have made a big
> difference here.
>
> As for why I have a 47M patch file, I presume this is due to some
> binary files I added and deleted to the repo early on. If there's any
> way of discarding patches related to this using obliterate or
> something, I might do that. Is there?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> thomas.
>
>
> thartman at ubuntu:~/patch-tag-dev>darcs show repo
>          Type: darcs
>        Format: hashed, darcs-2
>          Root: /home/thartman/patch-tag-dev
>      Pristine: HashedPristine
>         Cache: thisrepo:/home/thartman/patch-tag-dev,
> cache:/home/thartman/.darcs/cache,
> repo:tphyahoo at patch-tag.com:/r/patch-tag-dev
>        Author: thomashartman1 at gmail.com
> Default Remote: tphyahoo at patch-tag.com:/r/patch-tag-fork1
>   Num Patches: 737
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Eric Kow<kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> So first things first, it sounds like a workaround would be just
>> to make a tarball and get from that.  Let's look a bit deeper:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 21:27:02 -0400, Thomas Hartman wrote:
>>> thartman at ubuntu:~/patch-tag-dev>darcs changes | wc -l
>>> 2210
>>
>> Could I get a darcs show repo on that?
>>
>>> I can successfully perform this action if pushing to a virgin local
>>> repo, takes about a minute.
>>
>> That's interesting.  It's the same action whether remote or local.
>> Darcs push basically creates a patch bundle and performs darcs apply.
>> So if it works locally, then an explanation like "darcs apply chokes
>> on the large bundle" is likely not correct.
>>
>> I wonder why pushing remotely should make a difference.  If I remember
>> correctly, we do something that amounts to
>>  cat all-your-patches.dpatch | ssh patch-tag.com "darcs apply --repodir /foo"
>>
>> Let's test this out.  Could you darcs send -O a patch to an empty repo?
>> What happens if you then apply that bundle?  What happens when you scp
>> it over and then apply it by hand?
>>
>>> I can also push to patch-tag server if I
>>> wipe history and push just the files as a first commit.
>>
>> Does darcs put fare any better?
>>
>>> If any of the darcs devs would like to have access to the patch tag
>>> repo to reproduce this themselves the are welcome.
>>
>> Let's see how you do with the above first.  Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
>> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Hartman
>
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