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

[Jason Dagit]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Ben Franksen
<benjamin.franksen at bessy.de> wrote:
> 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.

Does this sound like your bug?
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue693

Our bug tracker can be hard to search, if for no other reason than
you're expected to know our (sometimes obscure) terminology for
things.  In this case, I knew the bug ticket would talk about
'pending'.

Thanks for the feedback.  I hope we can track this down and squash it
for the 2.0.3 release that will be here soon.

Jason