I see the problem in this bug, it's the lazy patch reading. darcs get doesn't create a complete repository, but instead includes a reference to the original repository. Thus when you remove the original repository, the gotten one is incomplete.
The question is how much we should change this. One option, of course, would be to default to strict getting of repositories, and say that folks who use --partial get what they ask for. I'd prefer to keep the lazy getting behavior, at least by default, since in most cases it seems to be what folks want (being far faster for large repositories), and when getting from a remote repository that is not removed, it's quite safe. We could add special logic for local gets, which could create hard links to all the patch files, but this would make a local get more expensive, and would also complicate the behavior (and complicated behavior has a tendancy to confuse folks... which could be used as an argument against lazy get in the first place). I should perhaps note that a non-lazy get is easily achieveable by doing a darcs get followed by "darcs changes everything" or "darcs changes -s". David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
