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Re:Dolt is Git for data by Tomte on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:43AM (#22737441)
It's been years since I have read about darcs. Did they fix that infinite time merge problem at some point?
Re:Dolt is Git for data by stevekemp on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:29PM (#22739259)
Not entirely fixed by the look of things:

Darcs 2 (introduced in 2008-04) reduces the name of scenarios that will trigger an exponential merge. Repositories created with Darcs 2 should have fewer exponential merges in practice.

http://darcs.net/FAQ/Performance#is-the-exponential-merge-pr...