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Re: Darcs

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FWFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date
Jun 25, 2007, 11:36 UTC
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* Bu Bacoo:
> What do you think about darcs?

The UI is nice, but darcs is quite slow (even if you don't hit the exponentional corner case in the merge algorithm).

My main gripe with darcs, and the prime reason why I'm moving away from it, is its lack of support for software archaeology. If you haven't tagged a tree at some point, you'll face lots of trouble when you try to restore something that resembles the tree you had back then. This is a direct consequence of the "heap of patches" approach, but it's a real nuisance, and the benefits of the increased flexibility don't make up for it, IMHO.

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  1. Bu BacooJun 24, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2007
  3. Martin LanghoffJun 24, 2007
  4. Jan HudecJun 24, 2007
  5. Theodore TsoJun 24, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2007
  8. Josh TriplettJun 28, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 28, 2007
  10. Bu BacooJun 29, 2007
  11. Florian WeimerJun 25, 2007
  12. Bu BacooJun 25, 2007
  13. Dan ChokolaJun 24, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsJun 25, 2007
  15. Dan ChokolaJun 25, 2007
  16. Martin LanghoffJun 27, 2007

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