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Subject:    [darcs-users] Re:--partial should not be required to download an
From:       Thomas Zander <TZander () factotummedia ! nl>
Date:       2005-01-20 9:13:21
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=guest;pass=guest ?

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

-- 
Thomas Zander


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