On 31 Jan 2008, at 11:51 AM, zooko wrote: > > I would suggest that strict get should be the default and lazy is a > command-line option.
+1 The darcs wiki can describe how to make darcs run fast, with the various tag/checkpoint/optimize-reorder tricks, and can also discuss this along with the appropriate warnings. The danger Zooko describes below is scary. Perhaps "darcs optimize --complete" would be a clear way to ensure you've got a complete copy of the local repository (in addition to remembering the tricks with "darcs changes" that David recommended in a previous post. -KQ > > Note that this kind of unpleasant surprise doesn't arise only when > using a remote repository. I myself did "darcs get local1 local2", > then, thinking that I had just made a complete copy of the history, > did "rm -rf local1". > > http://bugs.darcs.net/issue617 > > Fortunately, this was not my only copy of this repository, but it > could have been. _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
