[darcs-users] Bug in darcs-2, using darcs-1 repo format

[Ben Franksen]

Hi,

just when I finally got our sysadmin to install darcs-2.0.2 on our
development machine(s), after having tested darcs-2 with our old-style
darcs-1 repos for more than two months and finding nothing
problematic, ..... I start getting errors about darcs being unable to
record some changes.

Digging a bit deeper, it seems that after a 'rm <file>' darcs
sometimes 'forgets' to note that the file's content has been removed as
well. It then complains that it cannot remove the file without first
removing its content, refusing to record the changes. A 'darcs whatsnew -s'
reveales that indeed the 'rm <file>' is pending, but the hunk that deletes
the content has disappeared.

This seems to happen only if one records other changes in the meantime (i.e.
between removing the file and trying to record the removal). Even though
the error occurred many times over the last two weeks, I was not able to
reproduce it in a small example repo. Very strange.

Has anyone else noticed this? I searched the bug tracker but couldn't find
anything related. Maybe I didn't use the right search term.

Cheers
Ben