getting complete HEAD repo, darcs issues

[Claus Reinke]

i've finally bitten the bullet and am changing from a partial
to a complete HEAD repo. that hasn't solved as many
issues as i'd hoped, though:

1 could the tar-balls at darcs.haskell.org please be split 
    according to repo-collection? that is, one each for
    
        ghc, corelibs, testsuite, extralibs

    i fetched the ghc-corelibs.tar.bz2 version, but 
    testsuite doesn't like 'darcs get --complete', either;
    currently, i'd have to fetch all of the rest again just
    to get the testsuite, right? that would block my slow
    line for hours, again.

2 i'm trying to recreate my old setup, where i had 

        - one full repo (with extralibs, with my unrecorded
            changes), updated from the main HEAD repo,
            for creating binary dists that i actually use, and
            for recording patches to send here

        - a secondary repo, updated from my local repo, 
            with only the bits needed for validate

    but now, when i try to do 'darcs get --partial' from
    my new complete local repo, it seems to want to 
    get all patches, which fails, of course. does that
    mean that checkpoints are local to a repo, not
    recorded? how do i list checkpoints in a repo?
    should i create my own checkpoints, or would 
    that interfere with patches i send?

3 which reminds me: darcs-all gets in the way when
    working from local repos on windows:

        - absolute paths on windows start with a 
            drive letter, so /^\// will not match
        - protocols should be matched explicitly,
            just matching for /:/ will erroneously
            capture full windows paths 

4 the first thing i tried when i finally had a complete
    repo was 'darcs annotate', which always failed
    in partial repos, i think. but it still fails, now with
    a stack overflow, after a long time..

    should there be a ghc ticket collecting all the 
    outstanding darcs issues/darcs workarounds/
    darcs tickets relevant to ghc developers?

claus