Re: adam: please tag and optimize your repository

Sweet!  Will do.

  - a

Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> Adam, I have uncovered the joys of creating a checkpoint in a darcs
> repository. The procedure is:
> 1) Create a tag: "darcs tag -m "my tag name"
> 2) Optimize with checkpoint option: "darcs optimize --checkpoint
> --compress" (will automatically check point at the last named tag.
>
> Actually, 1 and 2 can be done as a single tag command with a
> --checkpoint option but I broke them apart for clarity.
>
> This has a number of benefits:
> 1) Many operation are much faster
> 2) You can do a "darcs get --partial http://darcs.ibex.org/ibex" in
> order to pull a working darcs repository but *not* all the historical
> information. This is much faster and less bandwidth and disk
> intensive, and most people will not need this info.
> 3) Most importantly, "darcs push" and hence, "make propose-patch"
> generate e-mails with context *only* since the last checkpoint,
> eliminating the ridiculous verbosity of the current emails to [email protected]
>
> -Tupshin
>
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