[darcs-users] Windows version of darcs wont 'get'

[Jon Hart]

>
> This really should work for you and not require any special effort  
> (as others have mentioned), but I have noticed that sometimes the  
> pull error messages are not so good.  I bet the same thing happens  
> with get.  I'll try it real quick:
>
> $ darcs get http://blah
>
> darcs failed:  Not a repository: http://blah (failed to fetch: http://blah/_darcs/inventory 
>  ExitFailure 1)
>
> Yes,  it would seem that a bug I reported just yesterday about the  
> error message of pull is happening with get.  You can find the  
> wishlist item here:
> http://bugs.darcs.net/issue822
>
> Does it sound like your problem?


It doesnt seem to be, I can browse the site perfectly well from a  
browser on the remote machine, and Ive double checked the url.

The command Im typing in is

darcs pull http://darcs.mmmpie.com/cfc

Ive tried various permutations of it, but nothing helps.
The problem with the issue you noted is that the error message darcs  
is giving me is exactly correct. There is no inventory file in my  
repo, Im using a darcs-2 format repo on both ends, and have the same  
identical versions of darcs, 2.0.0 + 19 patches. Note that when I pull  
from a local file system repo it works perfectly, it is like the  
remote pull is default to a darcs-1 format ( I assume that darcs-1 has  
an inventory file ).

It is possible that darcs cant see the server for some reason, but in  
that case I cant really think of anything to do. Ping and firefox both  
have no issues resolving it and browsing to it.

I would appreciate it if someone else could try pulling from my repo.  
I will leave my laptop on overnight so that it can be accessed.



Jon Hart.