[darcs-devel] [issue761] darcs pull doesn't check date pattern syntax soon enough

[Tim Chevalier]

New submission from Tim Chevalier <chevalier at alum.wellesley.edu>:

In a clean GHC repository (downloadable from
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2), I did:

darcs pull -a --match "before 2008-03-24"

darcs ran for twenty minutes, then spit out:

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darcs: Invalid --match pattern 'before 2008-03-24'.
    "match" (line 1, column 1):
    unexpected "b"
    expecting match rule

Perhaps darcs could check the syntax of the pattern before getting patches, so
that the user could fix their error without waiting twenty minutes for patches
to download.

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messages: 4012
nosy: beschmi, kowey, tim, tommy
priority: bug
status: unread
title: darcs pull doesn't check date pattern syntax soon enough

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