[darcs-users] zlib and patch crc errors: an update

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Eric Kow wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:10:33 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> I've done some more digging and am still rather confused. I'm fairly sure
>> that the patch cache can have compressed files, and it seems that
>> inventories might be compressed too. What about pristine?
>
> One thought which occurred to me is that having files in pristine
> which are compressed by darcs could be unfortunate if the user
> happens to store files which are gzipped for whatever reason.
> This doesn't tell us what darcs actually does, but maybe having
> a clue on how darcs *should* (?) behave, not having compressed
> pristine files, may help?

Yeah, agreed. It would be even worse if the user had some reason for 
storing gzipped files with corrupted CRCs that we then went on to "fix"...

Ganesh