On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 09:37:09PM +0100, Tommy Pettersson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:29:35PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > I haven't checked if you've already done that -- but I think it would > > be a good idea to add code to the stable branch to give a useful error > > message when it encounters a repo with a hashed repository. Tommy, > > would you be willing to hold off 1.0.9 until that happens? > > I just checked, and current darcs-stable fails on hashed repos > with various error messages, like: > > $ darcs what > darcs failed: Unable to "darcs whatsnew" here. > You need to be in a repository directory to run this command. [...] > A short "not supported by this version" will probably make life > a lot less confusing for users.
Agreed. When I've got time, I'll code up a revamp of the repository-identification code that only looks for _darcs/ or perhaps _darcs/format rather than looking for _darcs/inventory. Or someone else could volunteer. I believe that we *ought* to have decent error messages, provided darcs recognizes the hashed repository as a hashed repository (which is what the format business is designed for). -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
