[darcs-users] Fwd: Darcs bug (Neil Mitchell)

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 09:45:52 UTC 2009


Hi

>> What happens is that with the --partial flag, darcs gets only the
>> patches up from the new tag on.  But with the --tag flag, darcs tries to
>> unapply patches in from the new tag to the old tag, patches which it
>> simply has not fetched.  It sounds like what darcs really ought to do
>> is to grab checkpoints which are early enough to cover the tag you want
>> to fix.
>
> Now, I'm not saying this necessarily the right way to go forward, but an
> alternative possibility is just to chalk this up as a known bug with the
> old fashioned repositories (notably with --partial), not fix it and
> instead try to push people to use more hashed repositories.

The bug effecting me is that darcs v2 can't pull from a darcs v1 repo.
I'm not sure if all this partial/tag stuff is relevant as this happens
for me on a repo that has never been tagged when checking out without
--partial. Having my version control system not be able to get at my
old code scares me a lot - not fixing it doesn't seem like an option.

Thanks

Neil


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