Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guidelines for proposing library changes

Samuel Bronson wrote:

On 10/31/06, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Hello Donald,

Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 11:58:26 AM, you wrote:

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For the time being I've increased the libraries@ limit to 250k, inline with that for ghc-cvs and cvs-all@.

can someone please explain me why we can't optimize dsarcs repositories to make these ptaches a lot smaller. afaiu darcs system, we need just to "tag" current state of repository and all subsequent patches will be based on this tag instead of back-to-jan2006 whole history.

the same applies to ghc repository, where history now is about 200k long!

Well, you have to do it to your local repo, too. And if it is a --partial one, good luck! I can't even get --partial to grab me an older checkpoint properly :-(. Nevermind trying to reproduce the bug as simply as possible...

Both Igloo and I have seen strange behaviour w.r.t. partial repositories with GHC. In my case, I find it hard to decide what is really a bug. Igloo said he'd try to reproduce a buggy case on a smaller repository, but we're keeping him too busy with GHC :-) If anyone else can help us out here - characterise a bug report for the darcs folk - we'd be very grateful. Cheers, Simon