[darcs-users] difficult to tell that a working file was removed from repo

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Wed Aug 25 11:02:30 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:09:11PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> People have noted before that there's no direct way to ask, is this
> working file in the repository?  darcs annotate <file> is generally good
> enough, but it falls down on files that have been removed.
...
> The simplest solution is to refuse to annotate removed files (give the
> usual "no such file" response).  After all, the question isn't
> well-defined, since there may have been multiple files called foo at
> various points in the history.

Thanks for the bug report! I've done a tad more than you suggest (without
much more work) and noted which patch removed the file or directory.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org




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