[darcs-users] Need help getting off darcs

[Edwin Thomson]

James D Sadler wrote:
> I can reproduce this behaviour just by running darcs standalone and
> trying to pull the very first patch from our repo into a brand new
> repo.  (the first patch is quite big ~ 150Mb).  Darcs fails with the
> 'resource exhausted (out of memory)' error.  And this is on a Linux
> box with 4gig of RAM and not much else running.

Instead of pulling from the complete repository, you could try pulling 
from a cut-down repository that only has the first few patches in it. 
Once the conversion script has exhausted that, you can pull some more 
patches onto the cut-down version and continue.

Edwin