On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 16:17:51 +0000, roumier wrote: > darcs failed: user error (Error applying patch to recorded. > Running 'darcs repair' on the target repository may help. > ./these.aux: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)) > Your repository is now in an inconsistent state. > This must be fixed by running darcs repair.
I sat down with Joseph to figure out how on earth this came about, and we have about 80% of an explanation (see below) What next... ------------ Joseph: could you please send the sftp error message as a reply to this ticket? Somebody with free time: please make darcs get more robust wrt to IO errors. I make some suggestions below. The story --------- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd ~/myrepo darcs init # make some changes # record some patches # local machine darcs get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/myrepo # overlook the sftp error! # [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd ~/myrepo # make some more changes # record some more patches # local machine darcs pull # WHAM! (error) Observations ------------ 1) darcs get does not work with '~' in ssh paths: something like darcs get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/myStuff will fail with an error message from sftp This is because sftp does not interpret '~' in ssh paths. Fair enough, but maybe darcs should disallow tildes in such paths. Or maybe that's too ad-hoc a solution... 2) darcs get does not detect errors from sftp. At the very least, the get should say something scary like darcs failed: (blah blah blah) 3) darcs get does not clean up after itself when something goes wrong, leaving the user to use an inconsistent repository. Perhaps it should move _darcs to something like _darcs-broken so that darcs doesn't let the user do stuff in it. In Joseph's case, what went wrong is that darcs get managed to get the inventory file (via scp?), but not the actual patches (via sftp, which doesn't like ~) The mystery ----------- What bothers me about this is that it's only 80% of an explanation. If our explanation was completely true, Joseph's working directory would be empty, but strangely, it is not empty, and contains a recent looking version of his files. How on earth did those get there? He does not use Unison, rsync or anything like that. -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
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