[darcs-users] Help sought fixing regression since 2.4.4: unpull hangs forever

Aditya bsrkaditya at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 04:31:05 UTC 2011


 I will like to help! Although I must say, I have never actually used
trackdown before.
Kowey has asked me to look where issue2066(darcs record fails when deleted
file and added file are specified on the command line) got resolved. So I am
already interested to see how trackdown works.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There appears to be a regression since 2.4.4 which is experienced like
> this:
>
> The right kind of "bad patch" is introduced into the tree, and after
> that, trying to unpull *any* patch from the repo will fail. Very bad.
>
> There is a test repo available that illustrates the issue, and with it
> we've confirmed that 2.4.4 does not have the bug, but 2.5, 2.5.1 and
> 2.5.2, and "2.7.3 (+ 300 patches)" *do* have the bug.
>
> I was thinking that perhaps with the test case available, this might be
> enough information for a developer to set up a test case to use with
> "darcs trackdown" which could find the problematic patch in automated way?
>
> From --debug--verbose, we can see that the hang is happening after this
> printed to the screen:
>
> I'm doing copyFileUsingCache on
>
> patches/0000003769-e379a42f9ae1ab3f5c3e689a8fb154922276e99093ae5547e4f358775190df49
>
> Perhaps that rings some bells?
>
> Thanks for your help with this.
>
> I hope I can soon work towards installing a new darcs that fixes this,
> rather than working on installing darcs 2.4.4 again.
>
>    Mark
>
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