[darcs-users] support for old-fashioned repos (Was: Optimize darcs diff)

[Ben Franksen]

Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
>> The user impression is that darcs is failing and there is some support
>> for the old format, but very incomplete.
> 
> Darcs could print an informative message explaining exactly this.
> It is just a matter of updating the message it is already printing
> when getting from OF repositories.

I know enough people who take only a cursory look, if at all, at such
messages. I agree with Dan that supporting get on OF repos without
push/pull make darcs look bad.

Cheers
Ben