On 2008-01-22, David Roundy
We are happy to announce the third prerelease version of darcs 2! Darcs 2
David, I'm very happy to see this, and will be trying it out today! I have one concern though, and it's a big one. On your DarcsTwo page, it says: Darcs get is now much faster, and always operates in a "lazy" fashion, meaning that patches are downloaded only when they are needed. . . if the source repository disappears, or you lose network connectivity, some operations may fail. I do not believe these dangers will prove particularly problematic, but we may need to fine-tune the user interface to make it more clear what is going on. To me, that's a showstopper. This was really one of the huge advantages of Darcs over, say, svn. I can darcs get a repo from a server to the laptop, and hack on it doing anything, with full history, with no need for net connectivity. Losing this feature would be a huge problem for me and many others. The other benefits include having a complete local copy of a project's history in case that project's repo ever goes away. Also, I'm concerned that if I do a darcs get from one local repo to another, and remove the original one, that my other repo will no longer be complete. I hope that this means it's just a default, that there is still some way to pull down everything that could possibly be needed? But from the way the wiki page is sounded, it doesn't sound that way. -- John