[darcs-users] Strange error with darcs mv and add
Eric Kow
kowey at darcs.net
Sun Jan 4 17:04:11 UTC 2009
Hi,
Did you receive Trent's form-response below? Adding to his comment,
your darcs show files output may be interesting to have.
Thanks!
Eric
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 13:29:34 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> "S. Günther" <h8spawn at googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > $ darcs mv ./gsom/lattice.hs ./gsom/node.hs generic/
> > darcs failed: There is no file or dir named Gsom/lattice.hs in the
> > working directory.
> > although the file is there, as a 'darcs show files' shows [...]
>
> What follows is a form response.
>
> Thanks for your bug report! To fix a bug, we need to be able to
> reproduce it reliably. That means we need a set of instructions that
> will, at least for you, ALWAYS cause the bug to appear.
>
> Often the easiest way to do this is simply to make the buggy repository
> publicly available. That is, so we can "darcs get URL" to get it. Is
> there such a URL?
>
> It might be that if you "darcs get" the repository, the problem goes
> away. In that case, we need an exact copy of the buggy repository
> (i.e. a tarball or zip file) somewhere we can download.
>
> Best of all is if you can reproduce the problem in a brand new
> repository. So instead of us having to go through your whole
> repository, we can just use a set of instructions like
>
> darcs init
> touch foo
> darcs add foo
> darcs record --all --message 'Added foo.' foo
> ...
>
> that will cause the problem to appear. This allows us to add those
> instructions almost verbatim into the bugs/ or tests/ directories in
> Darcs' source, making our work much easier.
>
> Any of this will give us a huge head start on fixing your bug. It's
> also helpful if you can send the details to bugs at darcs.net, which will
> create a bug ticket on http://bugs.darcs.net/ which we (and you!) can
> use to track the status of the bug.
>
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