In the followup to patch251, Guillaume said that we should first
implement issue1066 and then apply Rado's alternative patch. When
issue1066 is fixed, we should revisit that patch.
The following patch sent by Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com> updated issue issue1268 with
status=resolved;resolvedin=2.10.0 HEAD
* resolve issue1268: enable to write darcs init x
Ignore-this: 2586d59ba17f94b655c3a48df80b5d66
Original patch by Radoslav Dorcik