[darcs-users] bug with exotic file names?

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:29:45PM +0100, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:31:57PM +0100, Matthias Fischmann wrote:
> >  - Upgrading to 1.0.9rc2 (release candidate 2) has no effect.
> > 
> >  - 'darcs get' into a fresh clone of the repo or 'darcs repair' have
> >    no effect (both go through without complaints, ie repair does
> >    nothing).  The clone repo comes with the file that I managed to
> >    insert earlier.
> > 
> >  - 'darcs remove' produces this error message:
> > 
> >      $ darcs failed:  Can't remove fig_I01:crypto:security:hierarchy_of_attacks.png
> [...]
> > Does anybody have an idea how to proceed?  I am little desparate,
> > since I am on a tight schedule on this project and the repo seems to
> > be in an inconsistent state right now.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I'm unable to reproduce this on my system (GNU
> Linux, reiserfs). A file with that particular name adds, records
> and removes just fine. (Both with darcs 1.0.8 and 1.0.9rc2.) If
> you can compile darcs, you could use Trackdown to find a version
> of darcs that can handle files with colons in them on your
> system. But if it's the file system and something else that is
> different from when you added the file, and not darcs' fault, a
> trackdown will just waste time failing all the very long way
> back to the initial version of darcs.

Also unable to reproduce this here (just added foo\:bar  and removed it
from one of my repos).  Linux 2.6.16 and ext3 here.
-- 
David Roundy
Deptartment of Physics
Oregon State University