[darcs-devel] Re: [darcs-users] darcs push problem: cannot find file

Will will at glozer.net
Mon Nov 22 23:12:01 PST 2004


David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:45:04PM -0700, Will wrote:
>> David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:
>> >
>> > Yeah, that makes sense.  Bonus points if we can do it in a way that
>> > costs zero on non-windows systems... perhaps the C preprocessor is our
>> > friend here.  Not that it'll cost much in any case, but still, as a
>> > matter of principle...
>> 
>> I'll tackle this, but it may take a little while as I'm short on free
>> time just now.  Do you want to remove the "set stdin and stdout to binary
>> mode" patch, so people don't get into trouble with '\r's in their
>> repositories?  The patch itself has one in the name already...
>
> Technically '\r's in the patch names shouldn't cause trouble, although it's
> not pleasant.  Perhaps we should bounce this feature idea off darcs-devel,
> if you don't have time right now? It's an easy enough task for quite a new
> darcs developer, and even a new haskell developer... although it's best
> done by a windows user whose getLine actually shows this problem of the
> extra '\r'.
>
> I've decided to cc this to the -devel list in the hope that someone will
> volunteer...

Turns out I had a bit of time, so I've sent in a patch to take care of
this.

Regards,
Will




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