[darcs-users] Re: Fixing a repo with duplicate patches

[Michael Sperber]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:47:27AM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
>> Generally, this worries me quite a bit: It appears tailor simply uses
>> the darcs command line to generate the repository.  Why does darcs
>> allow me to create a corrupt repo?  Is there any way to prevent this
>> from happening in the first place?
>
> It's been a wishlist request for a while (I believe).  We don't want to
> have a complete check by default, since that's an O(N) process where N is
> the length of the repository history (unless we did something tricky), but
> a check at the most recent patches would catch most such mistakes, and be
> cheap.  It just hasn't been anyone's top priority to add such a check.

So how do I fix the problem after the fact?

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