David Roundy wrote:
We are happy to announce the third prerelease version of darcs 2! Darcs 2 features numerous improvements, and it seems that we have fixed most of the regressions, so we're looking for help, from users willing to try this release out. Read below, to see how you can benefit from this new release, and how you can help us to make the final darcs 2 release the best ever!
The third prerelease features (apart from numerous bug and performance regression fixes) a completely rewritten rollback command and new progress-reporting functionality. If darcs takes more than a couple of seconds for a given operation and provides you with no feedback as to what it's up to, let us know, so we can fine-tune the progress-reporting output!
The progress reporting is fantastic! It's worth upgrading to darcs2 just for that :-) Although the progress reporting doesn't appear to work quite as well on darcs-1 repositories as it does on darcs-2 repositories - is that expected? There are still times when I see nothing happening, for example in the unpull test on the GHC repo (see previous messages), the last progress message I get is Reading patches in /64playpen/simonmar/ghc-darcs2 17040 and it sits there for 7-8 seconds before completing. Does this maybe shed any light on why this unpull is 2 times slower than darcs1? Cheers, Simon