This is a known bug that has been announced in most of the darcs-2 release announcements. Noone seems interested in working on the problem, and as I have announced on many occasions, I don't have time to do so.
David On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:46:41AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: >> >> I would call this a feature, rather than a bug, > > OK, here's how to turn it into a bug, then! > > We have AC in one repo, and BC in another repo, where A and B are the > same primitive patch, and C depends on that primitive patch. Now try to > merge them. > > darcs wants to commute the repos so that they have a common prefix, and > then disjoint suffixes, i.e. it wants to make > > C' A' > > C' B' > > and then merge A' and B'. But C depends on (the primitive patch inside) > A or B, so this fails: > > darcs: bug in get_extra commuting patch: > Wed Aug 13 17:46:06 BST 2008 Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * A > > This happens with darcs1 and darcs2 repos; complete script is here: > http://urchin.earth.li/~ian/identical_patches_2.txt > but it's basically the same as my earlier script with > darcs get ac abc2 > cd abc2 > darcs pull -a ../bc > tacked on the end. > > > Thanks > Ian > > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
