On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Marco Baringer wrote: > > hi, > > i've two patches which, when apply'ing them, give this error: > > darcs: bug in get_extra. > Most likely this is caused by a bug that existed in darcs prior > to version 1.0.1. Details for dealing with this issue can be found > at http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Issues1.0.1 > > however neither of the patches were created by darcs 1.0.1, one was > created by 1.0.2 and the other by 1.0.3. i've previously applied from > moth of these people so i don't think it's a darcs version problem.
Thanks for the bug report! My best guess (also note that darcs 1.0.4 will give a slightly better error message in this case) is that somehow the patches have gotten a bit messes up in transit. Somehow darcs isn't recognizing that the patch Sun Jul 17 23:39:50 EDT 2005 Jos\c3\a9 Pablo Ezequiel Fern\c3\a1ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * More accurate information regarding versions and how to get the software. in the context of those patches is the same as the patch of the same name that is in your repository. I wonder if the problem is in the weird characters in José's name. In fact, here's a bit of a hint: $ grep 20050717213407 _darcs/inventory /tmp/patch2 _darcs/inventory:José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20050717213407] /tmp/patch2:Jos� Pablo Ezequiel Fern�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20050717213407] I'm not sure what character sets are involved here, but somehow someone (perhaps my mailer, or someone else's mailer?) translated that accented 'e' and 'a' into a different character set. You could check if the original sender is able to apply the patches. I think you probably can make these patches work just by replacing the three instances of Jos�'s name with the contents of your _darcs/inventory and removing the patch hash (which will be invalidated by that edit. It is probably better to ask for a resend, and to track down how the name got modified. It may be that an older darcs caused this, but I have no recollection of such a bug. Asking the contributors who sent these patches for a copy of their _darcs/inventory would also be nice, to see if that somehow differs from yours. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
