[darcs-users] Releasing 2.8: errata darcs put

[Simon Marlow]

On 20/06/2011 10:46, Florent Becker wrote:
> Small errata/question about the release process
>
>> it seems the time for 2.8 is now approaching. You can find all the
>> details about it at http://wiki.darcs.net
>
> Of course, this should be: http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.8.
>
>> What we need to make the release happen:
>> ========================================
>>
> darcs put is slow, buggy, and not that useful. We should probably deprecate it,
> and disable it in 2.10. Is anyone strongly opposed to that idea?

I find put useful, particularly when I have SSH access to another 
machine and want to copy a repo from my local machine over there, but 
the local repo has changes or other stuff in its working tree that I 
don't want to copy.

FWIW, I hadn't noticed that it was buggy and not that useful :-)

Cheers,
	Simon