[darcs-users] darcs patch: change is_file to return false on dround... (and 1 more)

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 00:07:36 UTC 2008


David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> Certainly  if you do
>
> mkdir http:
> cd http:
> mkdir foo
> cd foo
> darcs init
> cd ../..
> darcs get http://foo
>
> things will go crazy.  The simple rule is that if it contains a colon in
> any position but the second character, it's not a file.  We could  indeed
> extend  this rule to say that paths beginning with a colon might  also be
> files, but I don't see a  huge  demand for that.

If there is a local path that looks like a URL or a "scp notation"
remote file, it would make sense to me to try making the "localness"
explicit by adding a file:, e.g.

    darcs init --repodir file:http://yow.org/

to make a darcs repo "yow.org" in ./http:/.



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