[Haskell-cafe] Guidelines for proposing library changes

[Samuel Bronson]

On 10/31/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Donald,
>
> Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 11:58:26 AM, you wrote:
>
> > For the time being I've increased the libraries@ limit to 250k, inline
> > with that for ghc-cvs and cvs-all at .
>
> can someone please explain me why we can't optimize dsarcs
> repositories to make these ptaches a lot smaller. afaiu darcs system,
> we need just to "tag" current state of repository and all subsequent
> patches will be based on this tag instead of back-to-jan2006 whole
> history.
>
> the same applies to ghc repository, where history now is
> about 200k long!

Well, you have to do it to your local repo, too. And if it is a
--partial one, good luck! I can't even get --partial to grab me an
older checkpoint properly :-(. Nevermind trying to reproduce the bug
as simply as possible...