[darcs-users] current status of darcs

[Nathan Gray]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:09:44PM -0800, William Morgan wrote:
> In particular:
> 
> 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of conflicts can
>    cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport that is a year
>    old. Is this still an issue? Is it a common occurrence? In such a
>    situation, is it easy to solve, or difficult?

I've never had this happen to me.

> 2. How actively maintained is darcs? Is it losing steam? Are bugs being
>    fixed faster than they're being introduced? The last release was 10
>    months ago---that could be a good sign or a bad one.

I think that means it's mostly stable.  The developers seem to be
focussing on some of the core problems (like conflict resolution),
since there do not seem to be glaring bugs in the current release.

> 3. I've seen mentions of using Tailor to back up darcs into e.g. CVS.
>    This would certainly help people feel more comfortable, but how
>    reliable is such a setup?

I'm not sure how good that is as a backup.  Tailor does a great job
of converting from one SCM to another, but the return trip is likely
lossy, if it is even possible.  If you do use tailor, I would
recommend subversion over CVS, since it will at least keep your
changesets grouped nicely together.

> Alternatively, if there's another VCS I should be considering
> (commercial or not), I'd be interested. I really like being able to pick
> out individual hunks when creating a changeset, and it's not clear to me
> that the darcs alternatives offer that.

I have not found any that I like more than darcs.  Every once and a
while I wish darcs had some nice eye candy similar to gitk, but maybe
that will come some day.

-kolibrie

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