On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:51:19PM +0200, era eriksson wrote:
> Inspection of the strace file reveals that darcs spawns a good number of
> ssh and scp processes in order to get the list of available patches and
> then copy them.  The first few invocations are apparently even just to
> figure out which version of SSH is in use.  It would definitely be nice
> if it could open a single remote shell and then chat with that as long
> as it wants to, but I don't know how hard that would be to implement.

Darcs-2 has a mode that allows a single connection to be used for almost
everything darcs does (a second connection is used when putting or
pushing).  That requires darcs-2 to also be installed on the server.

> The workaround, of course, for ssh, is to use ssh-add:

This is the standard way of using darcs, yes.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University



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