From: Bu Bacoo <bubacoo@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:54:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Darcs
Message-ID: <cecbdd220706250954m6ce18fcem6cae4729e795e947@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vedcqna7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

Florian, what are you moving to? To GIT?

On 6/25/07, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * 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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