[darcs-users] Request for comments: GSoC proposal "Hashed Files and Cache"

[Marcio Díaz]

Thanks for your comments Ganesh, I have updated the proposal and submitted
to the GSOC site. We can discuss it in detail later by irc.

Marcio.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 20/03/2014 06:32, Marcio Díaz wrote:
> > Hi everyone, I've uploaded my proposal for the GSoC, you can see it here:
> >
> > http://darcs.net/GSoC/2014-Hashed-Files-And-Cache
> >
> > I would like to hear your comments.
>
> Some random comments - though of course you should be skeptical of
> feature creep so don't just add everything I suggest to your proposal :-)
>
> - I really like the idea of "darcs undo". I think it might allow us to
> remove some confirmation prompts from other operations.
>
> - Will the bash scripts described in weeks 3+4 be integrated with the
> darcs test suite? It's also important that we don't regress on this in
> future.
>
> - Are you also thinking about making individual repositories bucketed?
> It raises bigger backwards compatibility problems (remote clients using
> "darcs pull"/"darcs get" access the repo directly) but may be important
> for big darcs repos. I suspect that we can actually defer this to a
> future format migration.
>
> - Will you be able to benchmark on multiple platforms? I've personally
> experienced very poor performance when my cache directory grew large on
> my Windows laptop and I suspect it was worse than one might expect on
> Linux, so it's worth looking at this in different scenarios.
>
> - I'm a little skeptical of the value of "darcs undelete", though it
> does sound pretty cool in some ways.
>
> - One thing I would really like and that is somewhat related is a "darcs
> archive" command that would take an existing repository, check for local
> changes (with or without boring files, at the user's choice) and local
> patches that aren't in upstream (as defined by the user), and replace
> the repository with a bundle file containing just those local patches +
> an extra one with any local changes. Just mentioning it in case it fits
> in with anything else you're doing, though it isn't directly about the
> global cache.
>
> - For "darcs optimize --global-cache" I would expect to give one or more
> root folder (e.g. my home directory) and have it find all the darcs
> repositories inside that folder.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ganesh
>
>
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