[darcs-users] Fwd: Darcs bug (Neil Mitchell)

[Trent W. Buck]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:16:21AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:35:18 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > darcs get http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/paper
> > 
> > ...works for me, so I'm inclined to blame this on a transient network
> > error unless Neil can reproduce the problem reliably.
> 
> Thanks, Trent.  I'm mostly replying so that I can CC Neil.
> 
> I think we can't do much about his experience of darcs get and darcs
> init / darcs pull not being identical experiences though, except make a
> special exception on darcs repository format checking for empty
> repositories.  But that seems like enough of a corner case to be a
> greater liability than it is a feature.

Sorry, I guess I've misunderstood.  What empty repository?