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

[Eric Kow]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> added the comment:

On 10 February 2014 at 18:37:08, Evan Laforge (bugs at darcs.net) wrote:

> 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... 

So, I don't think full access would be needed.  Maybe something like this would tell me what I need to know

    darcs changes --match 'touch [dD]ata' --summary | grep '\(^  \*\|\./data*\)' -i

Basically grepping both the filename and also the '  *' patch bullet point

What I would like to see is if we can somehow reliably recreate darcs being unhelpful with the case thing.  What is interesting is that if I understand correctly, it's not just the history because when do a get things seem to work for a while (which leads me by the way to suspect that things work for the “wrong” reason, and maybe with darcs get --no-cache you might find something weird and interesting)

> 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

Interesting, thanks! I don't have any reason to believe that this would affect things, but then of course, if I knew what was wrong, we wouldn't be doing all this poking

Thanks again!

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