Hello, I thought I'd share the metrics on our largest project we manage with darcs:
100,000 lines of Perl code 127 Megs of disk storage 3983 files 5 regular committers Tools to compute the metrics ( I exclude the _darcs directory and third-party libraries in our tree ) - sloccount project - find project -type f | wc -l - du -hc project ### Darcs handles a project of this size easily. Beautifully, actually. As someone who also uses git regularly, I can't imagine the amount of inefficiency and overhead we would experience if we tried to switch our workflow over to git. You might think that this is possible by using the latest-and-greatest darcs, but we are we are still using darcs 1.0.6 for our "beta" and "production" repos, including the darcs-1 format. (We are able to use the newest darcs in our personal development repos). We find performance is quite sufficient and we are able to have a streamlined and flexible workflow. Our graphic designer is one of our regular committers, and she was able to readily learn and use and darcs effectively along with the programmers. I challenge darcs reputation for being good at "small" projects. Today I can say that darcs is works well for projects with a 100,000 lines of code. Some may say "I only want to learn one source control system". After you've learned git, I can see why you wouldn't want to go through the effort to learn another. But darcs is far easier to learn and use. ( Just compare the basic "fix a bug" workflow! http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GitForDarcsUsers#Fixabug ) Even for those who have learned git, I would consider it worthwhile to use darcs for other projects when you can. I've written some more about darcs vs git on my blog: http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/darcs/ How about you: do you have a big darcs projects to share? Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Stosberg Principal Developer [email protected] Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites . . . . . http://www.summersault.com/ . . . . . . . . _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
