[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

Jason Dagit wrote:

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:

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One minor but important note: the hashed format is *not* readable with a darcs-1 program:

Sorry about that. The support for hashed repos existed long before 2.0 was released and so I misremembered the hashed support as appearing in a 1.x release.

It looks like you need at least 2.0 to read darcs 1 hashed repos.

Upgrading to a modern darcs client is advised and is only a 'cabal install darcs' away. I was under the impression that even debian stable has moved on to 2.x releases. How is it that you have a 1.0.9 release candidate client still?

Have you ever worked at a public institution? I recommend the experience... ;-) Seriously, the server is a debian etch (!) system. Also called "debian old-stable". Of course I have long since installed newer version of darcs, but since I am not root there I cannot put it into /usr/local, so I cannot completely rule out the possibility that other users still use the ancient /usr/bin/darcs and will now have problems when they darcs get. I do _not_ expect that this will lead to any serious trouble, as the latest stable darcs is just a small addition to the PATH away. Still, users should be warned that darcs-2.x is required. Cheers Ben