John Millikin wrote:
My chief complaint is that it's built on "patch theory", which is ill-defined and doesn't seem particularly useful. The Bazaar/Git/Mercurial DAG model is much easier to understand and work with.
Possibly as a consequence of its shaky foundation, Darcs is much slower than the competition -- this becomes noticeable for even very small repositories, when doing a lot of branching and merging.
I have two projects, one has about 50k lines of C code thats kept in Bzr and the other has 50k lines of Haskell code thats kept in Darcs. They both have similar sized commit and branch histories. I find the speed on Bzr and Darcs on those two projects to be pretty much the same. Most operations on a local repo take well less than 5 seconds. Git may be faster but if its under 5 seconds who cares. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/