[darcs-users] Need help getting off darcs

[James D Sadler]

On 07/01/2008, Edwin Thomson <edwin.thomson at businesswebsoftware.com> wrote:
> 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

I'll give that a try.  I expect it will be slow and painstaking (>
2000 patches in the repo), but it's worth it to keep the history when
I migrate.

-- 
James