[darcs-users] darcs and git

[Daan Leijen]

As some of you might know Linus is developing his
own "patch-management system" called "git" to manage
the Linux development tree. I personally can hardly
believe that the Linux community is developing a
new tool from sratch instead of using one of the
existing SCM's like Darcs :-(

The touted reason is performance: the Linux kernel
tree is huge. However, it would in my opinion be much
more worthwile to optimize an existing system instead
of hacking some new thing together.

This brings me to my question: How is the situation
regarding the performance of Darcs? I heard David (?)
is trying to improve performance of Darcs on large
repositories. Can someone enlighten me where Darcs
lacks performance for the Linux repository? Will Darcs
ever be fast enough?  (and in what timeframe?)

This would be an excellent time to start managing the
Linux tree with Darcs -- it seems the ultimate opportunity
for Darcs to become the next big thing :-)

All the best,
-- Daan Leijen.