[darcs-devel] [issue187] unknown date matching issue (old_date_time?)

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>:

A user on IRC noted that he had problems with darcs get --to-match.  His log is
below:
I'm having a problem getting using --to-match and a specific date

transcript of shell activity follows
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[orig]$ pwd
darcs-test/orig
[orig]$ darcs changes
Sun Jun 18 14:14:03 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Changes 02

Sun Jun 18 14:12:32 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Changes 01

Sun Jun 18 14:11:43 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Initial revision.
[orig]$ cd ..
[darcs-test]$ darcs get --to-match 'date "Sun Jun 18 14:11:43 EDT 2006"' orig new
Copying patch 3 of 3... done!
Unapplying 0 patches.
Finished getting.
[darcs-test]$ cd new
[new]$ darcs changes
Sun Jun 18 14:14:03 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Changes 02

Sun Jun 18 14:12:32 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Changes 01

Sun Jun 18 14:11:43 EDT 2006  Fred Bloggs <fred at bloggs.invalid>
  * Initial revision.

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[new]$ darcs --exact-version
darcs compiled on Apr 15 2006, at 14:34:51
# configured Tue Feb 28 07:02:39 EST 2006
./configure --no-create --no-recursion

Context:

[TAG 1.0.6
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20060228111841] 

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Note that I can replicate the same behaviour with darcs 1.0.8.  Note also that
darcs works as expected when the dates are somewhat far apart, that is, not down
to the minute like this one.

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messages: 707
nosy: EricKow, droundy, tommy
priority: bug
status: unread
title: unknown date matching issue (old_date_time?)

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