[Readding Debian BTS to the CC list.] On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:59:40PM +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:34:15 -0700, David Roundy wrote: >>> David, perhaps darcs should the suppress scp stderr stream by >>> default (re-enabling it by an environment variable), or suppress >>> it by default for "expected" failures (such as copying >>> _darcs/format for a darcs1 repo)? > >> Eric, what do you think? > > Maybe there is a way to kill two birds with one stone here: if we do > not detect darcs transfer-mode on the other end, we should print a > friendly warning saying > > (1) that you could get some very nice performance gains by > convincing your sysadmin to install darcs 2 on the remote end > > (2) and you may get errors fetching files like _darcs/format which > you can safely ignore > > Once people start using darcs 2 on the server end, we get less scp > silliness...
That sounds like a reasonable solution and relatively simple change to effect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
