[darcs-users] amend-record and patches pending

[Dan Pascu]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Dan Pascu wrote:
> A similar problem I noticed with a darcs-1 repository and a darcs-1
> binary. Pushing (or pulling, I don't remember exactly) many changes to
> a repo added an unrecorded change to the repo that I did not do. This
> time it as a real diff, not just some file in a pending remove state. I
> also had to darcs revert -a to get it to the desired state.

Just to clarify this, the change in the working copy after pull was not a 
random diff, but a partial diff of the last pulled patch. After pull the 
pristine and patches were just fine, but the working copy looked like it 
has the last pulled patch partially rolled back, as if it was not 
completely applied to the working tree.

Same is true for the other example with the darcs-2 binary. There were 2 
of the wav files moved by the final recorded patch that were not copied 
in the working tree, making it look like they were removed and probably 
that's why darcs said they were pending removal, not because it moved 
them first and then deleted 2 of them.

I suspect that the last patch is not completely applied to the working 
tree in some circumstances, making it look like a partial rollback is 
present in the working copy.

-- 
Dan