Hey Haskellers (and darcs-users CC'ed) On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 23:08:12 +0000, Jason Dagit wrote:
I answered you immediate question in a different email. Now I'll do a bit of explanation on why people want hashed.
Thanks to Jason for the explanation. I've linked to it from http://wiki.darcs.net/RepositoryFormats so that we'll have an easier time in the future encouraging people to move to the hashed format. Also: If you don't have darcs 2.4.4, you can upgrade to the hashed format by doing: cd /srv/code/myrepo darcs get . ~/myrepo-hashed rm -rf ~/myrepo-hashed/_darcs/prefs cp -R _darcs/prefs ~/myrepo-hashed/_darcs/prefs mv ~/myrepo-hashed/_darcs _darcs.new mv _darcs _darcs.old mv _darcs.new _darcs rm -rf ~/myrepo-hashed rm -rf _darcs.old I may put this on the wiki. We had pruned this sort of thing away in favour of the optimize --upgrade command, in the interest of tidiness, but getting recent Darcs into people's hands takes a while. Also, the maintainers behind code.haskell.org are aware about the need for a Darcs 2.4.4 upgrade (I filed a request on 15 Sep). We're looking into an easy way to do this on Debian Etch. See also -------- * http://wiki.darcs.net/RepositoryFormats The three formats in a nutshell * http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsTwo#hashed-repository-format More about hashed repositories (covers a lot of the same stuff Jason did) * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024941.html Discussion on eventually retiring support for old-fashioned repositories I can guarantee that at least Darcs 2.5 (the upcoming release) will continue to provide full support for old-fashioned repositories. But they are going away eventually so that we can focus on making Darcs better. Thanks! -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:kowey@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only)