From darcs-users  Thu Jan 20 09:13:21 2005
From: Thomas Zander <TZander () factotummedia ! nl>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:13:21 +0000
To: darcs-users
Subject: [darcs-users] Re:--partial should not be required to download an
Message-Id: <20050120091321.GA14596 () factotummedia ! nl>
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This seems like a bug;  doing a get from a partial repo should automatically
detect and enable the --partial setting.  Notifying the user that this is
being done.

For people who never tried this: this is what I get:
Copying patch 754 of 6055...
Fail: /home/zander/sources/java/myRepo/_darcs/patches/20040220080801-cd2d1-=
26244ebbe725d4bf1a2a47f02c30f7fa99dd21b4.gz: openBinaryFile: does not exist=
 (No such file or directory)

Alexey: perhaps you can open a bugreport on
http://bugs.darcs.net/?user=3Dguest;pass=3Dguest ?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:32:12PM -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
> Hello,
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>  Maybe I am doing something wrong - I have imported a big still active=20
> repository (about 9K changesets), tagged the last version and created a=
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> partial replica, so people will not try to download the whole repository=
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> by mistake. Now, to get files from new replica, everybody should type=20
> "--partial" option. It does not make sense - partial repository=20
> retrieval and full retrieval of partial repository are different things.=
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> In this particular case I do want to download everything from that=20
> partial repository.
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>  It looks like this is normal way of working with too big repositories.=
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> Am I right?

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Thomas Zander

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