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Rename

DARCS is the name of the software. What it stands for is pretty much immaterial. I think it should be moved to DARCS, or DARCS (software) if there's a clash. What do other people think?— ciphergoth 13:18, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)

I would prefer Darcs to DARCS. The web site and documentation seem to use "darcs" and capitalize in titles and in the beginning of sentences like it was a general noun. It's a name, and it's not pronounced letter by letter.

Per above, I agree that the article should be called "Darcs", not "DARCS". Any objections? Neilc 07:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I support the rename to "Darcs". I would have done it already, but there's discussion and history there on that name at the moment. --TuukkaH 08:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've completed the move and merged the two pages' histories. —Cleared a s filed. 14:21, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

logo and capatilization

needs to add a darcs logo please. And, please make sure the capitilization is correct. thx.

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Conflict bug

I think http://bugs.darcs.net/issue378 is the bug being referred to in the Bugs section. If so, this link should be included in the article's discussion about that bug, so that people can easily check to see if it has been resolved yet. Bayle Shanks 04:00, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that 2.0.0pre1 includes the new algorith, see [1] --128.214.182.228 (talk) 08:19, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Performance

“Darcs has been criticized on the grounds of performance” Can it really be that much worse than Subversion? (^_^) I feel like as much of my time is wasted waiting on svn as actually working these days. --Malirath (talk) 21:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, but darcs tends to lose out massively to the "new school" distributed RCSes like git, hg, bzr, etc. (PS: keep discussion focused on improving the article) -- intgr [talk] 20:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that this isn't really true anymore in 2011 (and since 2010) though git is still faster (which is to be expected given its position and the army of developers using it and improving it) darcs is now comptetitive with all others DVCS. Of course it's also much faster than Subversion since it's one of the advantage of DVCS ! Jedai (talk) 18:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It has been three years from now, if darcs is slow only when compared with git, then this line better be removed or rephrased, does other dvcs has special case which requires exponential time to handle merge conflict? --14.198.220.253 (talk) 17:29, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Darcs development motivation

The article states that the darcs was developed to replace traditional systems, however, in the Darcs Manual (1.0.9 rc1) following is written:

The development of a simplified theory of patches is what originally motivated me to create darcs.

It seems like the statement claimed by this article requires additional reference due to an obvious conflict with the official manual.--VictorAnyakin (talk) 09:14, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, that comes from the Darcs paper in the refs, Roundy's dissatisfaction with CVS. --Gwern (contribs) 15:36 10 July 2008 (GMT)

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