[darcs-devel] darcs patch: test: Exibit a falling test about rollback.

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Jan 10 17:08:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:43:40PM +0000, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> Mon Jan  7 16:02:24 CET 2008  nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com
>   * test: Exibit a falling test about rollback.
>   Indeed  the only test about rollback was br0ken by a prior test that creates a
>   directory  and  remove  read  permissions  to  it.  The  rollback test do some
>   records  that  silently  fail  by lack of permissions, finally the rollback is
>   cancelled since the named patch doesn't exist.
>   This shows that rollback need some care.

Thanks for the patch!

I've actually been debating the idea of removing the rollback command.
It's poorly implemented, and has been a source of confusion and problems.
What do you think?
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University


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