[darcs-users] Re: Fixing a repo with duplicate patches

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:46:09AM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
> David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:47:27AM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
> >> Generally, this worries me quite a bit: It appears tailor simply uses
> >> the darcs command line to generate the repository.  Why does darcs
> >> allow me to create a corrupt repo?  Is there any way to prevent this
> >> from happening in the first place?
> >
> > It's been a wishlist request for a while (I believe).  We don't want to
> > have a complete check by default, since that's an O(N) process where N is
> > the length of the repository history (unless we did something tricky), but
> > a check at the most recent patches would catch most such mistakes, and be
> > cheap.  It just hasn't been anyone's top priority to add such a check.
> 
> So how do I fix the problem after the fact?

You just have to regenerate the repository.  Darcs lost information when it
was provided with two identical patch names with identical dates.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University