"darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:34:16PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> 
> is darcs really not useable with partial repos? that would be a pain.
> i know that several ghc developers have already given up on partial
> repos

The bug you ran into is why we abandoned partial repos.

> if partial repos are unusable at the moment, what is the target date 
> for fixing this issue?

I don't know of anyone actively working on it.

It doesn't help that we only have large repos demonstrating the problem;
I tried to reproduce it starting from scratch, but the obvious things
didn't work.


Thanks
Ian