--partial or --complete?

[Simon Marlow]

Sven Panne wrote:
> Quick question: GHC's current darcs-all adds --partial by default, and the 
> user has to override this with --complete if this is wanted. Given my 
> sometimes rather strange experiences with partial repos (darcs doesn't find a 
> patch, "darcs changes" is silent, etc.), I've switched to --complete for all 
> my repos. What do others think? Should we leave "--partial" as the default or 
> should we add nothing special (resulting in darcs' default, i.e. --complete)?

--partial is fine if all you want to do is build the sources and occasionally 
pull to get the latest changes, which I think is the common case.  If you also 
want to make changes, then we recommend you should use --complete.  I think it's 
fine to leave --partial as the default.  I've just updated our recommendations 
about --partial on the wiki, though.

Cheers,
	Simon