[darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "WM" == William Morgan <wmorgan-darcs at masanjin.net> writes:

    WM> 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of
    WM> conflicts can cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport
    WM> that is a year old. Is this still an issue? 

It is, at least with Darcs 1.0.9rc1 from Debian.

    WM> Is it a common occurrence? 

It may happen when there are repeated conflicts (hand written ChangeLogs
can be a common cause).

    WM> In such a situation, is it easy to solve, or difficult?

It happened to me twice and I couldn't find any better solution than
destroying the darcs archives and rebuilding them (the project official
repository was CVS so it was possible).

Additionally I experienced twice that a pulled change didn't correspond
to the original, some parts dismissed silently.  I suspect it has
something to do with *former* conflicts too.

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

I use Tailor for putting CVS changes into a darcs repository and it
works well.  Two-way setup may be more complicated.

    WM> Alternatively, if there's another VCS I should be considering
    WM> (commercial or not), I'd be interested. 

AFAIK Mercurial and git share similar principles.

    WM> I really like being able to pick out individual hunks when
    WM> creating a changeset, and it's not clear to me that the darcs
    WM> alternatives offer that.

I don't think so.  Perhaps an external tool could be created to allow
this.  I dislike regular repository cloning, it's uncomfortable when I
use Emacs with a lot of edited files and TAGS.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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