[darcs-users] Re: diff-command in defaults fails -> setCurrentDirectory problem?

[Ben Hood]

David,

Thanks for the help.

I am in fact using Windows using the prebuilt binary, but am calling it
from a cygwin shell.

I appreciate the fact that this well be a Windows specific issue.

I will try to investigate it further as I am trying to see if some
windows users would switch to darcs as well.

Regards,

Ben

>-----Original Message-----
>From: darcs-users-bounces at darcs.net 
>[mailto:darcs-users-bounces at darcs.net] On Behalf Of David Roundy
>Sent: 20 November 2006 22:09
>To: darcs-users at darcs.net
>Subject: Re: [darcs-users] Re: diff-command in defaults fails 
>-> setCurrentDirectory problem?
>
>On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:02AM -0000, Ben Hood wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I wasn't aware of the diff-command option so I tried it out with my 
>> windows darcs installation by setting the preferences
>> 
>> $ echo diff diff-command smartsynchronize %1 %2 > 
>> _darcs/prefs/defaults
>> 
>> However, when I run it, the diff program starts but the 
>arguments are 
>> not passed properly and the darcs command fails with the following
>> error:
>> 
>> $ darcs diff
>> Running command 'smartsynchronize old-foo4/ new-foo4/'
>> darcs.exe: darcs90a184: removeFile: permission denied (Permission
>> denied)
>> 
>> Is there a simple solution for this?
>
>This is almost certainly a windows-specific bug... you are 
>running either windows or on a samba share, I presume? Windows 
>has some funky filesystem semantics which are darned inconvenient.
>
>If this is the case, it's tricky for most of us developers to 
>debug this, since we don't have windows.  Which is why we're 
>waiting silently for a windows guy to speak up.  We try to 
>keep things working properly on windows, but it's sometimes 
>tricky tracking down trouble that only shows up on a platform 
>one doesn't own.
>--
>David Roundy
>Department of Physics
>Oregon State University
>
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