[darcs-users] Using darcs 2 with darcs-1-format repo and other darcs-1 users seems to introduce "bug in get_extra" regression

[Mark Stosberg]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:54 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Hello,  
> 
> Today I tried out darcs 2.0.0 on FreeBSD 6.2, built from the port. At the
> moment it is not practical convert the project repos to the darcs 2.0 format,
> so they remain at in the darcs 1 format. This machine has personal repos on it
> and an "alpha" repo. 
> 
> A second machine as the beta repo on it, and use FreeBSD 4.x and darcs 1.0.6.
> (Because the OS is old now, it is difficult to upgrade darcs there ). 
> 
> After pushing three patches with darcs 2 to the alpha repo and then pulling
> them to the beta repo with darcs 1.0.6, I get a "bug in get_extra" before the
> interactive prompting of pull ever starts. 
> 
> However, after unpulling those patches from the alphasite, and repushing them
> with 1.0.9 and then pulling them to beta with 1.0.6, the bug is not triggered.
> 
> So, it seems by using darcs2 to push patches to a darcs1 format repo, some kind
> of regression is introduced so that darcs 1 (At least 1.0.6) can't read the
> patches anymore.
> 
> Known issue or bug?  
> 
> I'm sorry I'm not sure how I'd set up a reduced test case for this. 
> 
> For now, this is blocking our adoption of darcs 2 (at least until we get the
> OS and darcs upgraded on the beta machine).

I want to report that I think this issue may have been coincidence. I saw the same issue re-surface later without darcs 2 involved. I'm giving darcs 2 another shot now on this project. 
   
    Mark