[darcs-users] Help sought fixing regression since 2.4.4: unpull hangs forever
Mark Stosberg
mark at summersault.com
Mon Oct 31 12:29:35 UTC 2011
On 10/28/2011 12:31 AM, Aditya wrote:
> I will like to help! Although I must say, I have never actually used
> trackdown before.
Thanks for offering to help with, Aditya!
Did you have any luck with it over the weekend?
Mark
> 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
> <mailto: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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