[darcs-users] Need help getting off darcs

[James D Sadler]

I have tried all of the suggestions on this list, but so far have been
unable to successfully export my Darcs repository to another DVCS.
Always the same problem: out of memory (on a 4GB RAM machine).  The
repos isn't even close to being that size, which is what I cannot
grasp.

I am convinced that if I can convince darcs to allow me to pull one
patch at a time everything will work out just fine.  So what I want to
know is this:  can I manipulate the inventory file so that it only
contains a reference to one patch, then pull it, then subsequently put
each patch back in the inventory file (in order) and pull again,
rinse, lather, repeat until all patches have been pulled and expect it
to work?  The problem seems to stem from the fact that the difference
between the number of patches in the source and target repos is large
and darcs takes its time performing some scan over all of the repo to
work out what to pull.  If I can convince darcs temporarily that there
is only one patch in the source repo to start with (by modifying the
inventory file) perhaps I can work around that issue.

Anybody see any issues with this?  This is my last chance to restore
the history from the repository, AFAIK.

Thanks,

James.

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James