[darcs-users] Re: 'darcs check' fails with 'Unapplicable patch'

[Calvin]

[I initially sent this from the wrong email address, so I don't think
it will go through to the list. My apologies if the original does go
through eventually and it gets delivered to the list members twice.]

I found a page on the wiki that had my exact error message:
http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DiagnosticMessages#head-675d5072cf2d7471426595139b5fae48f559effa

Unfortunately, the solution proposed there did not work for me. I did
rebuild the inventory as directed, but it still contained the
offending patch, so I created a new repository, pulled patches one at
a time until just before the one that would not apply, but there was
nothing that I had unrecorded or amend-recorded previously that I was
aware of.

My work around to get back to something I could again record in was:

 * create a new repository
 * pull all patches before the broken one
 * pull all patches after the broken one
 * use unix diff -r and manually copy over the files from the old
repo's working dir that were different
 * record the changes so that the end result of the 2 repos is the
same (via different means) and use diff -r again to verify that I
didn't forget anything

Is there some other less kludgey way that I might have solved this
problem? I do still have the corrupt version of the repository, and
will try to fix it later if somebody has a better suggestion.

Thanks,

Calvin