[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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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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