[darcs-devel] [issue8] Darcs record fails with big record on Windows

[Will]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> Will Glozer wrote:
>> I've been experiencing the same problem importing a very large tree
>> with many binary files as a single changeset.  I've been testing with
>> the following archive contents:
>>
>>  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-4.0.3SP1.tar.bz2?download
>
> I've tested this tarball (which seemed faster to download) on linux and
> haven't had a problem, and I think Will said it worked fine on MacOS X.
>
> I ran
>
> darcs initialize
> darcs record -al -m foo
>
> Would that be enough to trigger the bug on Windows?

Yes, that triggers the bug here.

I've been backtracking through the code, and the failure seems to
occur when calling writePatch in PatchShow.lhs.

Regards,
Will