[darcs-users] Bounty on the conflict misery bug

[Zach]

When I pull many updates on my local machine running darcs (Debian) it
is fine, but when I run darcs on a remote account (older version) it
hangs in some infinite loop and tries to consume all of the CPU!

Zach

On 8/25/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Salvatore Insalaco writes:
>
>  > 2007/8/17, Alexander Staubo <alex at purefiction.net>:
>  > > We have patiently been waiting for a fix, but there seems to be
>  > > nothing on the horizon.
>  >
>  > Actually there is. Jason is working on a Google Summer of Code project
>  > about the conflict-handling in Darcs, and some code is already in
>  > darcs-unstable (albeit not actually working for "real world" usage).
>
> I've seen no reports that anybody understands it; there's no guarantee
> that Jason's work will really speed things up until there's a proof
> that what Darcs is trying to do isn't NP-hard (and preferably better
> than o(n^2)).
>
> Don't take my word for it, I haven't been paying that close attention,
> so maybe there are assurances.  But all I've seen promised is that
> people will work on it, not that there is a know solution that will
> just take some hard work to implement.
>
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