[darcs-users] announcing darcs 0.9.21

[Bryn Keller]

Thanks for the windows binaries, Will.

I have encountered an error when trying darcs out. Perhaps I'm misusing 
the 'darcs add' command, but I think an error message would be a big 
help in that case.

I have a directory structure like so:

darcstest
  |--src
     |--gnu         
         |-- getopt
              |-- (bunch of .java, .properties, and other files)

I wanted to add the gnu folder and all its contents (recursively), so I 
did the following:

C:\src\darcstest>darcs initialize
Successfully initialized tree!

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add -r src\gnu

C:\src\darcstest>darcs whatsnew

Fail: malformed filename

C:\src\darcstest>

Oops. I started over, thinking perhaps a forward slash was required, 
despite the fact I'm on windows:

C:\src\darcstest>darcs initialize
Successfully initialized tree!

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add -r src/gnu
Skipping:
adddir ./src/gnu
Skipping:
adddir ./src/gnu/getopt
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/COPYING.LIB
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/ChangeLog
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/Getopt.java
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/GetoptDemo.java
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/LongOpt.java
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/MessagesBundle.properties
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/MessagesBundle_cs.properties
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/MessagesBundle_de.properties
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/MessagesBundle_fr.properties
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/MessagesBundle_no.properties
Skipping:
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/README

C:\src\darcstest>darcs whatsnew
No changes!

This is much more informative, but not my desired result.

Then I thought, perhaps the fact I'm adding a subfolder without having 
first added the parent folder is the problem:

C:\src\darcstest>darcs initialize
Successfully initialized tree!

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add src

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add -r src\gnu

C:\src\darcstest>darcs whatsnew

Fail: malformed filename

Okay, so it really does requires forward slashes?

C:\src\darcstest>darcs initialize
Successfully initialized tree!

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add src

C:\src\darcstest>darcs add -r src/gnu

C:\src\darcstest>darcs whatsnew
{
adddir ./src
adddir ./src/gnu
adddir ./src/gnu/getopt
addfile ./src/gnu/getopt/COPYING.LIB
hunk ./src/gnu/getopt/COPYING.LIB 1
+                 GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+                      Version 2, June 1991
[snip]

Yes, that's it. So, I'd like to see:

1. Support for backslashes in path names, or at least a note in "darcs 
--help" saying that I have to use forward slashes regardless of the fact 
I'm on Windows.

2. When adding a child directory to the repository, the parent directory 
should be added automatically if necessary. Or else, the "skipping" 
error messages should mention that they're skipping files because the 
parent directory hasn't been added to the repository, so I know what the 
source of the problem is.

Thanks, and I look forward to trying out darcs!

Bryn

Will wrote:

>David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:
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>>Yes, a new release of darcs has finally come around.
>>
>>Changes this time are relatively minor.  Most important to me, a bug that
>>showed up when unrecording a patch having conflicts was fixed.  Some short
>>and long options have been changed around (hopefully for the better).  Most
>>dramatically, the -m flag is now limited to record and tag, and never
>>indicates a regexp.  Insead use the new --patch, --patches, --from-patch
>>and --to-patch options.  Various other minor fixes were also applied.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks!  Win32 binaries are to be available at
>http://glozer.net/darcs.
>
>Would it be possible to change the Windows download link at
>http://abridgegame.org/darcs/ to point to the wiki's CategoryBinaries
>page instead? The current link hasn't had updates in a long time, but
>users are likely to go there first and may not even think to look on
>the wiki.
>
>Regards,
>Will
>
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