[darcs-users] darcsum hangs

[Trent W. Buck]

era eriksson <era+darcsum at iki.fi> writes:

> Simon Marlow <marlowsd <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >>> darcssum has been broken for me since about darcs 2's release... once I
>> >>> enter my commit message and type C-c C-c to submit it, "darcs rec ." is
>> >>> run, and never exits.  The _darcs/lock file stays around, and I have to
>> >>> kill -15 the darcs process to use the repo again.
>
> Pardon this belated reply.  Do you think you could examine the " *darcs record*"
> buffer and report back here?
>
> I have a half-finished private version which tries to code around some IMHO
> problematic scenarios.  Basically, the problem boils down to this: if Darcs
> responds with something unexpected, darcsum will appear to hang.  There are
> probably many little things which can go wrong.  At the very least, I think
> darcsum should display any unexpected output so that you don't just sit there
> waiting for it to finish when it never will.

Cool, I'll get around to this when I have a spare half-hour.

Is your work on darcsum darcs-gettable?  It'd be useful to add to my
list of "neat stuff", even if it's in a draft state.