On May 17, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Eric Kow wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 23:42:06 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: >> I've managed to setup putty on Windows and it is successfully doing >> ssh without a password as advised in the darcs wiki. Unfortunately - >> when I attempts a "darcs get" for my remote repository (on Mac) a >> "PuTTY Command Line Error" dialog pops up saying: >> >> unknown option "--repodir" > > Uh-oh, can anybody reproduce this? This is surprising, as one would > think that this sort of thing would have been reported earlier.
Oops, sorry for not reporting back, but it has been resolved. It was a really stupid mistake on my part, which I resolved a day later or so. So... sorry for the noise, jules > > I tried a darcs get --lazy on Linux and was reminded that darcs > does this: > > ssh darcs-unsta...@darcs.net darcs transfer-mode --repodir darcs/ > > which is presumably what PuTTY is complaining about. > > Thanks, > > Eric > > PS, two asides: > > 1. There's a new binary out for darcs 2.4.4 on Windows, if you'd > like to help us test it: > > - http://darcs.net/binaries/windows/darcs-2.4.4-win1.zip > > We'll be officially announcing it in a week. > > 2. There's some evidence that darcs actually works fine with MSYS > OpenSSH. > > The caveat seems to be that if you're running in an MSYS shell, MSYS > will try to convert your > f...@example.com:blip\blop\blub > into something like > f...@example.com;C:\Development\Tools\msys\1.0\blip\blop\blup > > Presumably, the same would happen if you were running PuTTY. > > Anyway, maybe it would be good to shift the wiki away from PuTTY > if this was the case. As I understand it, Salvatore wants Darcs 2.5 > to ship with TortoiseSSH, which apparently pops up a nice Windows > dialogue box for your passphrase. > > -- > Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> > PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
