[darcs-devel] [issue535] darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo
Claus Reinke
bugs at darcs.net
Mon Sep 17 21:35:10 UTC 2007
New submission from Claus Reinke <claus.reinke at talk21.com>:
context:
- i'm working on patches for ghc head
- to send the patches for review, i'm supposed to use 'darcs send',
which means i need to 'darcs record' them
- the patches evolve in discussion until they get accepted,
so i can't keep the interim versions of the patches recorded
the issue:
i thought that using
darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1
would do what i need: being able to send a patch without keeping
it recorded in my local repo. but it fails:
$ darcs unrecord --last=1
Mon Sep 17 11:41:51 GMT Daylight Time 2007 claus.reinke at talk21.com
* ghci :browse! :{:} :set :show languages/packages
..
Shall I unrecord this patch? (1/1) [ynWvpxqadjk], or ? for help:
realdarcs.exe: failed to read patch in get_extra:
Fri Dec 15 21:44:30 GMT Standard Time 2006 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
* Free more things that we allocate
Perhaps this is a 'partial' repository?
$ darcs -v
1.0.9 (release)
$ which darcs
/cygdrive/c/darcs/darcsdir-cygwin/darcs
i have no idea whyever darcs would need to look beyond the last
patch if that is all i want to unrecord, so why is partial/complete
repo even an issue here? looks like a bug to me.
and is there a workaround that could help me avoid throwing away
my repo and waiting a few days while pulling the huge complete repo
over my slow connection?
is darcs really not useable with partial repos? that would be a pain.
i know that several ghc developers have already given up on partial
repos (there's even a good old-fashioned tarball to start from...).
if partial repos are unusable at the moment, what is the target date
for fixing this issue?
thanks,
claus
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title: darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo
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