Hi Nimrod, I've just taken a look at your repository (and then at the email thread), and I think I know what happened.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:03:42PM +0800, Nimrod A. Abing wrote: > The repo *was* on a windows machine. I tarballed the repo and moved it > to one running Linux. acl.php is supposed to be ACL.php and the thing > broke because of the filename case difference so I mv'ed acl.php to > ACL.php and then recorded it as a patch. Here's where the trouble must have shown up. The file never was named acl.php (it was ACL.php all along, as far as darcs is concerned). However, either the windows tar program or the windows filesystem (which isn't case-sensitive) must have decided to name the file to acl.php in the tarball. When you untarred that tarball, you had a corrupt pristine cache and working directory, since the file had the wrong case. If at that time you had run darcs check, darcs would have recognized the problem. Instead you (quite understandably) renamed the acl.php file to ACL.php, which caused trouble because there was already an ACL.php file in the repo, and there was no acl.php file in the repo. I'd be curious if you could check out the original windows repo and tarball, if they're still around, just to know how this happened. But the solution is to unrecord the rename patch and repair the repository. We *really* need to switch to a database pristine cache, as it seems that filesytems are shockingly incapable of storing directories of files reliably. :( Partly because other programs rudely recurse into the directory and modify them, but also because of issues like this one, where limitations of either the filesystem or tools that work on the filesystem (tar) end up misbehaving. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
