[darcs-users] darcs2 and hidden cionflicts

Eric Kow eric.kow at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 14:31:02 UTC 2008


Hi,

> the hidden conflicts problem
> (http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/HiddenConflicts) seems to be unsolved in
> darcs2, at least when using the old-style repo format. It has bitten us
> today and cost me and a co-worker nearly a whole day to track down. It is
> generally viewed here as a critical bug and has cost Darcs some reputation
> w.r.t. reliability.

That sounds worrisome.

Could you create a minimal test case that demonstrates this?  I don't
see anything on the bugtracker, so that may be useful as well.

For the test case, perhaps darcs send a patch to our bugs/ directory?

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