[darcs-users] old-fashioned repository support in darcs 2.8

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:

>>> Lastly, I do not think we should commit to the contract "if, by 2.8,
>>> hashed repos are not as fast as OF repos we should put back full OF
>>> support in the code".
>>
>> I don't think anybody was suggesting that :-)
>
> Oops, what I read was more "we commit to bring back hashed performance
> on par with OF", so I unconsciously made up the "or else" part. Sorry
> for the wrong interpretation and miscommunication.

For what it's worth, I thought that "or else" is what we discussed with 
Petr when he was planning to do this on the adventure branch. I may have 
misremembered, and especially about the precise details of the performance 
target.

Ganesh