[Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

[Jeff Wheeler]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this must be a VFAQ, but... There seems to be universal agreement
> that Darcs is a nice idea, but is unsuitable for "real" projects. Even GHC
> keeps talking about getting rid of Darcs. Can anybody tell me what the
> "problems" with Darcs actually are?

Yi, a fairly large and old repository, recently moved to (primarily)
Git. Our motivation was not flaws in Darcs, but rather GitHub.

-- 
Jeff Wheeler

Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign