[darcs-users] [Gtk2hs-devel] Sparating darcs repositories.

[Axel Simon]

Hi Simon, Eric,

Eric: good to know it wasn't my lack of darcs-foo
Simon: that did the trick, it's all done now.

Thanks again,
Axel

On 25.05.2010, at 11:06, Simon Marlow wrote:

> On 24/05/2010 21:00, Axel Simon wrote:
>> Hi darcs gurus, hi Duncan,
>>
>> I'm stuck! I've just tried to separate the Gtk2Hs repo on
>> code.haskell.org into it's constituent libraries. What we want is to
>> extract some of the libraries that Gtk2Hs provides into their own
>> repositories without loosing their history. The problem is that darcs
>> will only checkout a directory that does not yet exist. So I've  
>> tried:
>>
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ darcs get --lazy /srv/code/gtk2hs
>> Finished getting.
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ mv gtk2hs/_darcs .
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ mv gtk2hs/webkit .
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ darcs mv webkit/* .
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ rmdir webkit/
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ rm -rf gtk2hs/
>> simona at nun:/srv/code/webkit$ darcs record
>>
>> This seems to work great: webkit only contains the files it should  
>> and
>> recording the patch gives me exactly the movements of the webkit  
>> files
>> one level up and the removal of all other files. However, when I  
>> check
>> out on my local computer I get:
>>
>> ~/source as49$ darcs get simona at code.haskell.org:/srv/code/webkit
>> Copying patches, to get lazy repository hit ctrl-C...
>>
>> darcs failed:  Couldn't fetch `0000001146-
>> ffed5fe22fabf1987787fe71d2c6c2e3a06d53e176e52bad3112d8bba73f9440'
>> in subdir patches from sources:
>>
>> thisrepo:/Users/as49/source/webkit
>> repo:simona at code.haskell.org:/srv/code/webkit
>> repo:/srv/code/gtk2hs
>> thisrepo:/srv/code/webkit/gtk2hs
>>
>> I *think* what this means is that darcs on code.haskell.org tries to
>> pull more patches from the original repo but fails to do so (even
>> though I used absolute path names).
>
> The problem is that when you did a "get" on code.haskell.org, the  
> other repo was /srv/code/gtk2hs, and now that you're on a different  
> machine that path is no longer accessible.
>
> Either use non-lazy repositories, or pull down the whole gtk2hs  
> repository locally so that all the patches end up in your local  
> cache (~/.darcs/cache).  Non-lazy repos aren't as bad as they seem,  
> because darcs hard-links all the patch files together.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
>
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