[darcs-users] Maintaining a history of compilable repository states

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi Henning,
>
>> Older darcs versions (e.g. darcs-2.5) had the 'trackdown' function.
>>   http://darcs.net/manual/Darcs_commands.html#SECTION006112000000000000000
>>
>> It seems to be removed in darcs-2.10. I wonder how it can work if many
>> interim states do not compile.
>
> It is present in 2.10 under the command "darcs test". Its default
> behaviour is the same as the old "darcs trackdown" but it also has
> "darcs test --bisect" and "darcs test --backoff".

I assumed that 'darcs test' is the replacement 'darcs check --test', isn't 
it? 'darcs test --help' says that '--once' is the default. Ok, but I was 
not aware, that 'darcs test' also replaces 'trackdown'.