[darcs-devel] Re: Darcs stable and hashed inventories?

[Tommy Pettersson]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:29:35PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I haven't checked if you've already done that -- but I think it would
> be a good idea to add code to the stable branch to give a useful error
> message when it encounters a repo with a hashed repository.  Tommy,
> would you be willing to hold off 1.0.9 until that happens?

I just checked, and current darcs-stable fails on hashed repos
with various error messages, like:

  $ darcs what
  darcs failed:  Unable to "darcs whatsnew" here.
  You need to be in a repository directory to run this command.

  $ darcs changes
  darcs failed:  Not a repository

  $ darcs get .
  Invalid repository:  /home/tommy/kod/darcs/foo
  darcs: /home/tommy/kod/darcs/foo/_darcs/inventory: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)


A short "not supported by this version" will probably make life
a lot less confusing for users.


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>