[darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

[Ben Franksen]

Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
> I'm thinking more and more that darcs should have a behaviour similar
> to the most known VCS', unless there is some *absolute* necessity (by
> design or design principle) to do another way.

It may be a bad idea to do things differently just out of spite, but IMO a 
"good reason" is enough to be different. Demanding "absolute necessity" 
raises the bar a bit too high IMHO.

Enough said on UI questions. Minor differences in the UI are not the reason 
Darcs has few users. More important is that it leaks memory, which becomes 
noticeable when importing large repos, especially with binary files. I 
stumbled over this problem just a few days ago. Had to kill -9 an initial 
'darcs record -la' after about 10 Minutes because Darcs consumed all the 
memory on my machine and it became almost unusable due to swapping. I know 
of *no* other commonly used VCS that has such problems to properly scale up.

(And I am still a dedicated Darcs fan.)

Cheers
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