[darcs-users] upgrade from darcs-1 to darcs-2
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Mar 4 19:35:12 UTC 2015
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> Sorry about the confusion! There are three repository formats:
> old-fashioned (OF), hashed and darcs-2, but only two patch semantics
> (darcs-1 and darcs-2).
>
> old-fashioned and hashed both share the same patch semantics (darcs-1).
> As you've discovered, old-fashioned has been retired, but you can
> upgrade all those repositories to hashed whilst still maintaining
> cross-compatibility between repos etc.
Oh I see that darcs-2.8.5 still works in a hashed repository. I was not
aware of that.
Btw. are the exponential time merge problems solvable within the darcs-2
semantics or does it need a darcs-3? And what about new modification types
like indentation changes - would this require darcs-3 semantics?
> I plan to add darcs-1 (hashed) support to darcsden (and hence
> hub.darcs.net) to address precisely this concern, but haven't got around
> to it yet. Given the recent announcement about code.haskell.org, I'll
> try to get that done in the next few weeks.
This would be great! I hope that the code.haskell.org maintainers can wait
for this time.
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