[darcs-users] bug with exotic file names?

[Tommy Pettersson]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:05:06AM +0100, Matthias Fischmann wrote:
> | $ grep figures trace
> | 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33
> | 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33
> | 27481 chdir("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures") = 0
> | 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33
> 
> how does get_slurp know the file is not in figures without even
> looking?

It's magical ... or there's a bug somewhere. ;-)

> how can i purge all patches and files from the repository that this
> funny file does not depend on?  (obliterate, yes, but how do i find
> them?)  then i could publish the poor thing and everybody could have a
> look at it.  (if anybody wants to have the entire thing, that's fine
> with me, too: it's 4MB and not all that confidential.)

It's easier to do it the other way around; pull the patches of
the funny file to an empty repo, and all that depends on it will
have to go with it. 'darcs changes <file>' will list those
patches ... unless it fails just like Remove. It can take a very
long time for darcs to calculate the dependencies. If you're
lucky, the problem occurs already after the patch that adds the
file.


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