[darcs-devel] Re: bug in get_extra

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Tue Nov 16 06:15:05 PST 2004


On 2004-11-16, Jim Radford <radford at blackbean.org> wrote:
>
> A bit more specifically, I have a bunch of patches generated with
> cvsps on which I ran the following
>
>   darcs init;
>   for p in ../*.patch; do 
>     patch -sp1 < ../$p 
>     perl darcs-metadata-from-cvsps-header ../$p | \
>        darcs record -a --look-for-adds --pipe
>   done
>
> After using the resulting darcs repository for a while I noticed the
> mis-attribution.  I then edited one of the patch files to correct the
> author and re-ran the above generating a new initial version of the
> repository.  I thought that pushing the new repository to the
> repository I'd been using would just push that one patch or at worst
> get come kind of conflict on that patch.
>
>> > Either way, it does produce:
>
>> >   bug in get_extra - please report this!

Thanks for these details. :)

>  Though, yes, I probably should have used the bug database, but I
>  didn't feel like signing up and thinking of "yet another password".

Our bug system doesn't currently require, or even allow, people to sign
up for accounts. You either simply send a bug report by e-mail, or use
the 'guest' account in the web-based interface. 

    Mark





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