[darcs-users] darcs record bug fixed ?

[BARBOUR Timothy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Roundy [mailto:droundy at jdj5.mit.edu]
[...]
> It is but...
> 
> > It sounds pretty serious, and might put off potential new 
> users (such as
> > me), so if it has been fixed the doc should be changed.
> 
> ... by pending changes I mean those that are included in the "pending"
> patch.  This means file additions and removals (unless you 
> actually delete
> the file in your working directory) and renames, as well as token
> replacements.  It's definitely a bug, but not as serious as it sounds,
> although it can be highly annoying at times.  In the case, 
> for example, of
> the token replace, if you perform a token replace, then record another
> change, the files still have the tokens changed, but it'll 
> get recorded as
> a set of hunk changes, which is not at all what you want.  
> The problem is
> that when doing the record, I don't currently keep track of 
> which changes
> need to go back into pending, which will be a bit of pain.

Okay. I had the impression from the description (not understanding what
"pending" meant) that changes would be lost. If I understand what you are
saying, changes are not lost, just recorded in a less than ideal way. That
does not sound like a show-stopper.

> At the moment I'm in the process of tracking
> down a bug that has taken me four days so far... 

Good hunting! Have you tried a declarative debugger, such as HAT-detect
(http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/hat/) ?

Tim


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