On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty
Ian Lynagh: Having two vcs for one project is bad. One reason to switch to git (I am told) is that people had problems with darcs on some platforms (windows and Solaris, for example). How is that going to be any better if part of the project is still in darcs? So, can we please make up our mind? If darcs has problems on some platforms, then we should not use darcs at all for ghc. If darcs does not have problems on some platforms, then there is one less reason to switch.
I switched all my Haskell projects over to Git, as a developer on Linux, is that I wasted way too much time fighting with Darcs that I should have spent programming. It's way too slow. I've run in to exponential merges with only two developers commiting to the same repository. It randomly freezes -- exponential merge, general sluggishness, who knows! -- or crashes. And merging, perhaps the most important operation in a DVCS, is a pain. I don't trust Darcs to keep my source code safe anymore. Cheers, Johan