It's been practical enough for me for a repo of this size for several years: $ darcs get http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge &>/dev/null $ cd sge $ darc

It's been practical enough for me for a repo of this size for several years: $ darcs get http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge &>/dev/null $ cd sge $ darcs log --count 4851 $ darcs show files | wc -l 4715 $ darcs show files | tr '\n' '\0' | wc -l --files0-from=- |& tail -n1 1343975 total Rather than speed, it may be more important that the darcs theory has needed patching up.