At Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:31:25 -0400,
James Blackwell wrote:
> Whats needed in this field is research on how to minimise the requirement
> for history and then to delay downloading it until its necessary. There's
> some anecdotal proof in the arch world that one can delay getting
> information in ancestors until you actually need it.
darcs get has a --partial flag:
--partial get partial repository using checkpoint
You can create a check point with the 'darcs tag --checkpoint' (and
possibly also 'darcs optimize --checkpoint')
--checkpoint The --checkpoint option allows the tag be used later
with the --partial flag to get or check. A partial
repository only contains patches from after the
checkpoint. A partial repository works just like a
normal repository, but any command that needs to
look at the contents of a missing patch will
complain and abort.
If you do a 'darcs get --partial', you can still record (aka, commit)
new patches without downloading the full history.
Obviously, there is a lot more that could be done to automate it --
but it is a neat start.
j.
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