[darcs-users] bug with exotic file names?

[Tommy Pettersson]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:31:57PM +0100, Matthias Fischmann wrote:
>  - Upgrading to 1.0.9rc2 (release candidate 2) has no effect.
> 
>  - 'darcs get' into a fresh clone of the repo or 'darcs repair' have
>    no effect (both go through without complaints, ie repair does
>    nothing).  The clone repo comes with the file that I managed to
>    insert earlier.
> 
>  - 'darcs remove' produces this error message:
> 
>      $ darcs failed:  Can't remove fig_I01:crypto:security:hierarchy_of_attacks.png
[...]
> Does anybody have an idea how to proceed?  I am little desparate,
> since I am on a tight schedule on this project and the repo seems to
> be in an inconsistent state right now.

I'm sorry, but I'm unable to reproduce this on my system (GNU
Linux, reiserfs). A file with that particular name adds, records
and removes just fine. (Both with darcs 1.0.8 and 1.0.9rc2.) If
you can compile darcs, you could use Trackdown to find a version
of darcs that can handle files with colons in them on your
system. But if it's the file system and something else that is
different from when you added the file, and not darcs' fault, a
trackdown will just waste time failing all the very long way
back to the initial version of darcs.

I wish I could be of more help.


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>