[darcs-devel] Re: look-for-adds and unreadable files.

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Thu Feb 24 16:54:31 PST 2005


On 2005-02-24, Peter Strand <peter at zarquon.se> wrote:
>
> I have a darcs controlled directory with some files, not version
> controlled, that cannot be read by the user running darcs, which
> makes "darcs whatsnew -sl" exit with:
>
> Fail: /path/...: openBinaryFile: permission denied (Permission denied)

I agree that dying in this case is a bug. 

> Is there a better way to solve it? cleaner?

My opinion is that a warning should be emitted, and darcs should
continue.

I think it's best for "look-for-adds" to mention a maximal amount of
files to minimize the chance that one gets missed or forgotten.

    Mark
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