[darcs-devel] [issue2356] darcs refuses to edit files in subdirectory named 'data'

[Evan Laforge]

Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> added the comment:

>> > Maybe a useful thing might be to darcs changes --summary | less
>> and
>> > search for \./data
>>
>> I do see the 'data' patches as expected.
>
> Ah, in addition to the Data patches?

Yep.

> Hmm, I've thought of another way to search the patch history.
> Could you please attach the full output of
>
>    darcs changes --summary --match "touch [dD]ata"
>
> This should by rights give us the list of patches to both small and big d
> data.

Indeed it does, I see both the old add Data/ then remove Data/, and
then the new add data/, followed by modifications of files inside.

> Hopefully with your list of patches, we will be able to work out why Darcs insists that big D data should still be there and maybe come up with a longer lasting solution for you, and either some UI improvements or bugfixes to darcs.

The repo has 3617 patches, dating from 2008, so it's not exactly a
minimal reproduction, but if examining the current state would help I
could give you access... it's something I plan to eventually open
source anyway.  Actually, that probably wouldn't help, because I'd
have to give you access to a branch, and branches tend to not have the
problem any more.  I could try just copying directly, but you'd have
to copy it to another OS X machine to get a repro.  The _darcs
directory is 43mb.

One other bit is that it started in the darcs1 format and was later
upgraded.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Data directory dated from
the darcs1 era.  However, my main branch has gone through a few 'darcs
get's, so I don't think any of the original darcs files remain.

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