[darcs-users] Corrupt Repository

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, John Meacham wrote:

> Hi, I somehow corrupted the repository for my DrIFT tool, and can't seem
> to fix it. I was wondering if someone with more darcs-fu could take a
> look?

Somehow darcs decided you had 3 Makefile.in files in the repo (in 3 
different directories). So in its sequence of patches, it had a patch to 
add stuff to them assuming they were already there, followed by a patch 
that to empty them out and delete them that you recorded when you noticed 
them.

I've edited the raw patch files to remove all mention of them. If you grab 
the two files named 200704*.gz from http://urchin.earth.li/~ganesh/temp, 
drop them into _darcs/patches over the existing files there (obviously you 
should take a backup of the repo first), then run darcs repair, you should 
end up with a working repository, that hopefully has the contents you 
want.

Cheers,

Ganesh