Hi, I recently did a simple "darcs get" like the manual says ... would like to know about a couple of things. The repository got downloaded as a series of ~450 patches ... I looked through the darcs manual, and there's this option "--partial" that works with something called "checkpoints" created by the "darcs optimise" command ... could that be used to reduce the number of individual patches being downloaded? Every release could be a checkpoint for example ... Also, there is no Makefile to create a tarball from the repository itself ... certain files in conf have a ".dist" extension which I assume are meant to be processed before creating the tarball ... would like to have a Makefile in the repository itself which can do that. Basically something that works with the "darcs dist". This information could also be added to the wiki:darcs and wiki:development:guide pages ... Sameer. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist