[darcs-users] Re: Problem between Darcs 1.04 and Darcs 1.05

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>>> what, if anything, can I do to make my 1.04 repos into happy 1.05
>>> ones??

>> The simple solution would be to use 1.04 to generate all the
>> historical versions of your project, and then manually record them one
>> by one in a new repo.  Another solution would be to simply discard
>> history, and make a new repo starting at the current version.

> OK. In the case, I don't mind losing the history. If I did care, I'm
> not quite sure what you mean by "generating the historical
> versions..." Can you point me in the right direction?

Just manually create a new repo with the history you care about.  For
each version, use 1.0.4 to get a copy of that version, for example
using darcs dist, then record this version in the new repo.

You can use ``darcs record --pipe'' to force Darcs to use the original
date and author for the new patch.

The alternative is to manually edit the patches under _darcs/patches
in order to fix the inconsistency.  If you look at the darcs-users
list archives, you'll find a happy user (Vincent Balat) who recently
had just the same problem as you and successfully performed some major
surgery on _darcs/patches, so it is definitely doable without full
grokking of the Darcs sources.

                                        Juliusz