[darcs-users] Re: cannot use darcs to control my systems-config because darcs diff doesnt work if darcs repos is (yes, i mean root)

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 07:21:54PM -0800, Sean Perry wrote:
> Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> >don't you think that (a) [ "new-repos" instead of "repos-new" ] would be 
> >the safest bet as not all utilities are guaranteed to understand '--'.
> 
> that gets us around this problem. Not using the double dash when calling 
> shell programs is a bug waiting to happen.
> 
> The real answer to the bug is to properly use absolute file names, so 
> /-old would be fine.

I'm going with the simple new-repos patch.

Since the file names are included in the diff itself, this may output more
information about your file system layout than you really want.  And then
they'd always have to look at the diff to see whether to apply it with -p0,
-p1 or -p4.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net