[darcs-devel] [issue1295] darcs not smart enough about finding _darcs in the "remote" repository

[Ben Coburn]

New submission from Ben Coburn <btcoburn at silicodon.net>:

Darcs is smart about your location in the current repository.... You can darcs
pull from any subdirectory of the local repository and darcs knows what to do.

However, if you specify a remote path to pull from other than the base of a
darcs repository, then darcs gets confused. Darcs should be *equally smart*
about finding the remote repository base.

If you have a remote repository 'remote/' and you run the command 'darcs pull
../remote/foo/bar/' then darcs should scan up the remote path looking for '_darcs'.

In short, if
    darcs pull ../remote/
will succeed, then
    darcs pull ../remote/foo/bar/
should *not* fail.

(Noticed on darcs 2.1.2)

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messages: 6945
nosy: btcoburn, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, simon, thorkilnaur
priority: wishlist
status: chatting
title: darcs not smart enough about finding _darcs in the "remote" repository

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