[darcs-users] "Pulling from" message is confusing

Erik Schnetter schnetter at aei.mpg.de
Wed Dec 8 20:53:09 UTC 2004


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A colleague of mine unintentionally managed to set his default 
repository to "."  When pulling with the intention to get patches from 
the master repository, the screen said

 Pulling from ....

but things would not work.  It took me some time to figure out the cause 
of the problem.  Had the message indicated that the first dot is the 
repository location and the three other dots are added sugar by darcs, 
this might have been easier...

One solution would be to enclose the location in quotes, as in

 Pulling from "."...

Another might be to forbid pulling from a path that is inside the 
current repository, or at least warning about this.

- -erik

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