Push Button Paradise

Hey Micah - I have found darcs to be the perfect solution for the exact purpose you are trying to fulfill.  If you want some extended samples ping me and I will point you to a few things that Kurt and I have worked on recently that should showcase quite well just how easy and, more importantly, how well suited darcs is for maintaining linked repositories.  In fact the more linked repositories the better as this then instantiates a file linking system which ensures that, no matter which file you need, it will be available from any location, darcs is constantly optimizing each repository such that as few actual bit consuming files exist, the rest are simply links to another node within the system.  Naturally this would lead you to believe that high potential exists for problemlematic access to files from any given node at any given time.  However, darcs learns the "habits" of the system and "plans" accordingly, linking to files without actually creating a local copy once the odds of problems have proven sufficiently low enough to justify the link.... at least, this is how I understand things based from the project docs and wiki... in reality I havent been running any of my darcs based repositories long enough to know for sure just how efficient this system is.  But with as many people as I know that have had enough time to analyze this and claim to have never had any problems it feels safe to assume the same will continue to be true for anybody who properly utilizes the system the way it was designed; which by the way is very natural and very easy to learn.

Hope this helps! see: http://darcs.net for more info.
Posted by M. David Peterson at Mon Oct 10 08:11:03 2005