Darcs

[Simon Marlow]

Norman Ramsey wrote:
>  > For those that don't follow the darcs-devel list, David has just announced 
>  > a pre-release of Darcs 2:
> 
> I did see an announcement on the Haskell list, and I was slightly
> alarmed that some unspecified operations will no longer work
> disconnected.  I don't have time to keep up with the darcs mailing
> lists, so I haven't informed myself about the details, but as a casual
> user of darcs I find the statement alarming.  To me one of the great
> strengths of darcs has been my utter confidence that I can be on an
> airplane and pretty much do as I like except pull from or push to a
> repo that is not on my machine.  If that has changed, I won't be using
> Darcs 2.  If it hasn't, the casual users need to be reassured.
> 
> I'm sure there's a more appropriate forum to say this in, but I don't
> know what it is.  The main thing is that David sees it---David,
> presumably you know your users and know whether others will be
> frightened as I was.

This is really just a user interface issue: the big change is that lazy get 
is the default in darcs 2, whereas previously you had to specify --partial. 
  I think I agree with Norman here, the default should be to get a complete 
copy, if you want a lazy partial repository you should have to say so.

Cheers,
	Simon