[darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

Jason Dusek jason.dusek at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 13:00:55 EDT 2008


zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> Jason Dusek wrote:
> > Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > "I would contribute to darcs if only..."
> >
> >  ...there were interest in binary file handling.
>
> ...what do you mean -- do you want darcs to do some kind of
> binary deltas and then merge them? Sounds crazy. Or do you
> just want it to be efficient in time and space to hurl big
> files around without applying patches to binaries?

  I don't see how you can be efficient in space without doing
  binary deltas, but I don't care for binary merging (mergelets,
  anyone?).

-- 
_jsn


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