[Lispweb] Re: RFC2109 - part 3 (final bit of my yakking)

[Alan Shields]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:42:43AM +0100, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> Alan Shields <Alan-Shields at omrf.ouhsc.edu> writes:
> > I'm considering having the releases include the _darcs directory, to
> > ease patch submission from releases. This ups the size of the release
> > from ~80K to ~380K - any opinions?
> 
> You can use 'darcs tag --checkpoint "rfc2109 x.xx"' when releasing and
> distribute a partial tree: 'darcs get --partial --tag "rfc2109 x.xx"'.
> 
> I haven't tried this myself so the commands might not be correct, you
> should check darcs' manual.

Good idea, I hadn't considered a partial tree.

That drops the current release to...368K. Dang it. The full one is 600K
now.

Ah well. It was a good idea.

Alan