[darcs-devel] [issue744] file created and moved onto in the same patch?

2008-03-10 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: I converted the darcs-2 repository from hashed-format to darcs-2- format, and got this weirdness: This patch apparently includes both mv Autoconf.lhs Autoconf.lhs.in and add file Autoconf.lhs.in. Regards, Zooko changelog patch author

[darcs-devel] GHC's darcs evaluation wiki page

2008-03-09 Thread zooko
or value judgment, but I disagree with it. It was more true before the recent renewed interest in hacking on darcs-2. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] How to simulate a buildbot run locally

2008-03-08 Thread zooko
by comparing the ones listed on the buildbot page that describes the step with the result of 'env' in the local shell. Maybe it changes the default shell? According to the buildbot page linked above the process being executed has argv: ['bash', '-c', 'make test']. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-devel] zooko's idea of why buildbot run tests fail when manual ones don't

2008-03-08 Thread zooko
This sounds like a great analysis. It would be consistent with why the change to the steve_and_monica script help...I think it was the first script executed that piped data so that darcs expected on STDIN. Hm... But buildslave closing the make process's stdin shouldn't effect the darcs

Re: [darcs-devel] zooko's idea of why buildbot run tests fail when manual ones don't

2008-03-08 Thread zooko
P.S. I opened a ticket on the buildbot trac: http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/198 ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue739] nothing happened (at first)

2008-03-08 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Reid reported on IRC: (I ran darcs get http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk tahoe) ... there is no status ... A minute later he said Oh, now there is status.. However, I believe that the current UI principle for darcs

[darcs-devel] rollback.sh

2008-03-08 Thread zooko
, then it hangs indefinitely. There's something else curious about it -- twice during my experimentation I interrupted a test to the bash prompt back, but the test left several processes running in the background: bash, and yes, but not darcs or perl. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue727] darcs does not understand backspace

2008-03-07 Thread Zooko
So the way to reconfigure your terminal is: stty erase C-v[BACKSPACE] Where C-v means hold down the control key and hit the v key and [BACKSPACE] means hit the backspace key. __ Darcs bug tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.darcs.net/issue727

Re: [darcs-devel] help with buildbot on macos?

2008-03-06 Thread zooko
upgrading to the current stable release, let us open a ticket at http://buildbot.net . Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] help with buildbot on macos?

2008-03-06 Thread zooko
are running the latest stable buildbot code on the OSX Tiger buildslave? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] help with buildbot on macos?

2008-03-06 Thread zooko
from that buildmaster. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] about darcs 1.0.10 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-02-29 Thread zooko
is continuously receding... Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] about darcs 1.0.10 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-02-28 Thread zooko
Heron it would be good if it were released earlier rather than later, so let's see what we need to do to release it ASAP. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] buildbot! And how do I run specific tests?

2008-02-28 Thread zooko
? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue694] Failed to download URL http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/_darcs/inventory

2008-02-15 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay, now I'm on a working network, but: --- $ time darcs pull -a --verbose --debug-verbose http://allmydata.org/ source/tahoe/trunk Beginning identifying repository . Done identifying repository . Beginning identifying repository http

[darcs-devel] [issue688] darcs failed: Couldn't fetch `eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6' in subdir pristine.hashed from sources:

2008-02-13 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I ran this command on Windows, using the darcs.exe from 2008-02-06: time darcs get --hashed --verbose --debug-verbose [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$REPO The remote host repo was in hashed format. This was the result: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] darcs transfer-mode

[darcs-devel] [issue667] performance regression: darcs-1 vs. darcs-2-hashedformat on getting the darcs-unstable repository

2008-02-08 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: time darcs-1.0.9 get http://darcs.net/repos/unstable real20m55.913s time darcs-2pre get --hashed http://darcs.net/repos/unstable-hashed real39m5.057s again: time darcs-2pre get --hashed http://darcs.net/repos/unstable-hashed real

[darcs-devel] strace timing logs Re: a couple of quick timings

2008-02-07 Thread zooko
straceithg/tar.strace.log.txt 15448 straceit/tar.strace.log.txt 2034044 total So darcs made 1.9 million system calls to do darcs record while hg made 60,000 system calls to do hg commit. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] a couple of quick timings

2008-02-07 Thread zooko
On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, David Roundy wrote: Thanks for the test case, Zooko, and for pointing out this regression! Could you rerun your timings when you have pulled this change: I pulled your latest patches and ran it again and it took around 20 seconds. Way to go! That is within

[darcs-devel] a couple of quick timings

2008-02-06 Thread zooko
tar xjvf ciphercycles-20070205.tar.bz2 0m2.3s time hg init 0m0.1s time hg addremove 0m1.4s time hg commit -m'init import of ciphercycles-20070205' 0m2.3s Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org

[darcs-devel] timing report

2008-02-06 Thread zooko
time darcs-2pre get --verbose --debug-verbose --hashed http:// darcs.haskell.org/ghc took 253m32.6s ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] a couple of quick timings

2008-02-06 Thread zooko
-20070205' 15m44.0s Oh, I just realized that I was compiling ghc in another window, but this record took 15 minutes just like the darcs-1-format record did, so I guess running a ghc compile in another window didn't interfere with the benchmark too much! Regards, Zooko On Feb 6, 2008

Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch: [issue633] config detection of curl_multi_timeout pres...

2008-02-04 Thread zooko
I used KQ's patch and it fixed the problem for me. Thanks, KQ! Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue631] darcs add of file larger than memory results in out of memory error

2008-01-31 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I created a 1 billion byte file (the machine has a mere 500 million bytes of physical RAM), darcs added that file, and then darcs recorded and I got darcs failed: out of memory This was with darcs-2. Regards, Zooko -- messages: 2980

Re: [darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-31 Thread zooko
. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] [darcs-users] next stable release?

2008-01-31 Thread zooko
would be willing to help with darcs-1.0.10, at least in my traditional role of making a zipfile with it plus putty executables for Windows and Cygwin... Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

[darcs-devel] [issue634] build failure on Mac OS 10.4 -- libcurl doesn't have 'curl_multi_timeout'

2008-01-31 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think what is happening is that Mac OS 10.4 comes with a libcurl that is too old: configure says: checking for libcurl... 7.13.1 checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... yes and then make says: [ghc] src/hscurl.o src/hscurl.c: In function

Re: [darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-28 Thread zooko
*want* them.) Is that right? That would be a good way to optimize the generation of different timestamps -- skip it entirely. ;-) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue625] --repodir= option searches parents of that dir for repos

2008-01-27 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: The --repodir option is documented as --repodir=DIRECTORY specify the repository directory in which to run. But the way it behaves is more like the directory in which to run, if that directory is a repository, else recursively search

Re: [darcs-devel] performance measurements of darcs get, hg clone, and rsync -r

2008-01-25 Thread zooko
I added --debug-verbose and sure enough it is calling scp for, it looks like, every single patch. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] performance measurements of darcs get, hg clone, and rsync -r

2008-01-25 Thread zooko
On Jan 25, 2008, at 5:13 PM, zooko wrote: Hm. This file is 390 KB. I'll just give you the head -20 and attach the compressed version. There is no occurrence of the string sftp in it. That last sentence is wrong. ssh -O an_invalid_command ; # Null Null Null scp -q [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [darcs-devel] performance measurements of darcs get, hg clone, and rsync -r

2008-01-25 Thread zooko
to be. I think this would definitely be harder than learning haskell. Which isn't to say it's not a reasonable problem to tackle, but rather that your lack of Haskell knowledge isn't an excuse! Heh heh. To me, implementing network protocols is easy, and learning Haskell is hard. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue618] rm repository and then optimize --uncompress sibling repo yields failed to read patch:...user error

2008-01-25 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here is a bash script which, on my Mac OS X machine, with darcs-2 (recent vintage), yields the following output: darcs: failed to read patch: Tue Jan 8 11:47:49 MST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tagged allmydata-tahoe-0.7.0 user error (Couldn't fetch

Re: [darcs-devel] performance measurements of darcs get, hg clone, and rsync -r

2008-01-25 Thread zooko
when you have the privilege of doing ssh to the server, because it has strictly better access options. So yes, advising my users to use http on get is a good work-around, too. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http

[darcs-devel] cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
for the implementation difficulty (of which I know little), any other option would provide a better trade-off. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
following-up to my own post: On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:15 PM, zooko wrote: So, let me see if I understand the issues here. ... 2. It would be nice, but isn't currently used, if one could rely on the property that for a given patch id, nobody can come up with another patch that has the same

Re: [darcs-devel] cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
(although not safe against a quantum computer). SHA-1 is the worst of both worlds -- slow and unsafe. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue614] weirdly named directories left lying around

2008-01-24 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is an old bug with darcs that it sometimes leaves an empty directory named something like darcs-ssh. darcs 2 has modified this into a new and more troublesome form -- darcs get sometimes leaves an empty directory named myprojecdarcs- ssh

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
/archives/2005/08/new_cryptanalyt.html Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] initial performance measurement of darcs-2

2008-01-23 Thread zooko
it ~/.darcs/cache, and I guess it doesn't know what I mean by ~), so you can probably consider the 1/2/3 rows as just showing the noise in the system rather than actually using the cache. :-) I'll try to explain to darcs-on-windows where to do caching, later. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue609] can't darcs mv file over the place where another file once stood

2008-01-23 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try this with darcs-2: rm afile darcs record darcs mv anotherfile afile It will say that it can't proceed since afile already exists (at least on Windows), even though afile actually doesn't exist. -- messages: 2698 nosy: beschmi, droundy

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-23 Thread zooko
on the part of some malicious actor that darcs tries to prevent, such that the collision-resistance (such as it is) of SHA-1 is necessary to prevent it? Regards, Zooko [1] http://cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html [2] http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end_data

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-23 Thread zooko
. (If you need a secure hash function, Tiger is probably stronger than, and is 150% as fast as, SHA-1.) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch: Libwww new API: waitUrl, copyUrlFirst added; copyUrls ...

2008-01-22 Thread zooko
, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue602] self test failure on Mac OS 10.5/Intel

2008-01-22 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: The current unstable (darcs-2-pre) fails its self-tests for me. The last part of the output is: Test Summary Report --- pull.pl (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 14 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse

[darcs-devel] [issue604] Windows builds of darcs-2 don't work for me

2008-01-22 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: I tried the executables from http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rgm/darcs/ but they don't do anything on my Windows XP system, not even pop up a crash dialog. ./darcs.exe --version, for example, returns silently to the prompt. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] initial performance measurement of darcs-2

2008-01-22 Thread zooko
of patches, using hashed format is much faster than using darcs-2 format! The repo in question is publically available (and chock full of very cool source code that you are welcome to use): http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch: Libwww new API: waitUrl, copyUrlFirst added; copyUrls ...

2008-01-21 Thread zooko
this. Try valgrind. Just install valgrind and use valgrind darcs instead of darcs. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] a measurement of using 7z instead of gz to compress patches

2008-01-18 Thread zooko
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:25 PM, John Meacham wrote: Yes. I was thinking of zip. sorry. how does 'bzip2' compare actually? In my experience, 7z provides tighter compression and similar speed so I've stopped looking at bz2. But here you go: 81592 trunk-nocompress-individual-patches 48980

[darcs-devel] darcs v1.1.0 ? or darcs v1.0.10?

2008-01-18 Thread zooko
If I may suggest, I think that the version number 1.0.10 makes more sense than 1.1.0, because the difference between 1.0.10 and 1.0.9 is much like the difference between 1.0.9 and 1.0.8. This is the 10th incremental improvement since darcs 1.0.0. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] a measurement of using 7z instead of gz to compress patches

2008-01-16 Thread zooko
/_darcs _darcs replaced by _darcs.tar and then gzipped: 18784 trunk-gz-all-at-once/_darcs.tar.gz _darcs replaced by _darcs.tar and then 7zipped: 10644 trunk-7z-all-at-once/_darcs.tar.7z Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net

Re: [darcs-devel] a measurement of using 7z instead of gz to compress patches

2008-01-16 Thread zooko
, as I'm so used to tar. :-) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] user experience engineering note

2008-01-14 Thread zooko
messages if there are three or more -v's, and so I hope that when that patch becomes available in a darcs release that it will help my co-worker. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-12 Thread zooko
I've got the tarball, but I'm not clear how to use it to reproduce the bug. I don't see any problems there (e.g. no unrecorded changes), but I only looked with the latest darcs-unstable and the darcs 1.0.9rc1 that is in etch, so it may be that the bug appeared and disappeared between

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-12 Thread zooko
On Jan 12, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Tommy Pettersson wrote: On the other hand, darcs2 has the new GADT testing and better unit testing, so darcs2 might already be even more safe with the old repo format than darcs1, even without real world testing. By looking at the reported bugs it has mostly been

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-11 Thread zooko
to make it reproducible so that we can debug it. First of all, I made cp -a's of the three repos (on three different machines) where it happened. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

[darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-11 Thread Zooko
Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Okay, here's what I know so far: My coworker Rob wrote a patch on his Mac machine, using darcs 1.0.8 from MacPorts. This is the patch (visible on our trac+darcs): [1]. He pushed this patch to our dev.allmydata.com machine, which is Linux

[darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-11 Thread Zooko
Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: My brother Nejucomo just got a similar error -- pull silently succeeded and then left unrecorded changes -- on Ubuntu 7.04 with darcs 1.0.9rc2. He had a much older version of our repository, and he pulled to become up to date with our current

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2008-01-04 Thread zooko
Thanks for looking at this, David. I'm busy on the imminent v0.7.0 release of our secure, decentralized filesystem, http://allmydata.org , so after this message I probably won't look at this more until next week. On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:09 PM, David Roundy wrote: * Can you confirm that you

[darcs-devel] [issue574] weird error when trying to do replace with - as a valid token char

2008-01-01 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear People of Darcs: Thank you, as always, for your work on this valuable tool! Please observe the following transcript: --- begin included transcript HACO wonwin-mcbrootles-computer:~/playground/allmydata/tahoe/trunk- hack$ darcs replace

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue574] weird error when trying to do replace with - as a valid token char

2008-01-01 Thread zooko
On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Zooko wrote: HACO wonwin-mcbrootles-computer:~/playground/allmydata/tahoe/trunk- hack$ darcs replace --token- chars=[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_-] \\- \\-root\\-uri \\-\\-dir\\-uri docs/configuration.txt darcs failed: Bad token spec

[darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2007-12-31 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: This is a minor disaster for me, as the central, canonical, append- only repository of my company and my open source project, http:// allmydata.org , is corrupted in a way that will probably interfere with our operations. So I

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2007-12-31 Thread zooko
. Unfortunately, the machine where things work okay is not the central development machine for the project. ;-/ Each darcs executable was compiled on that machine itself. Could there be a bug in Haskell that would cause this sort of behavior? Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue573] corrupted repository -- indelible conflicting local changes

2007-12-31 Thread zooko
? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] Any answers for IsiSetup's concerns?

2007-12-12 Thread zooko
that set, even though the two repositories exchange other patches not in that set. This is often requested by users on the darcs mailing list, I've noticed. If darcs supported that kind of workflow easily, would such support also apply to management of permission bits? Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre1, the first prerelease for darcs 2

2007-12-12 Thread zooko
Dear darcs-devel folks: Oh by the way, let me say: HOORAY!. I suspected that darcs 2 was never going to actually happen, and now I see that it *is* going to happen! Way to go! This breathes new life into the darcs project! Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-devel] Any answers for IsiSetup's concerns?

2007-12-12 Thread zooko
However, darcs shouldn't be unsetting your x bit. I'm pretty certain that is a bug! :( I spoke loosely. It doesn't actually unset the bit on an actual file, but when I do darcs get it creates a new physical file without the +x bit. I perceive this as unsetting the bit on the logical

Re: [darcs-devel] Any answers for IsiSetup's concerns?

2007-12-12 Thread zooko
on this front, as well as on the symlink front, was waiting for darcs-2 patch theory to be sorted out. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] Building darcs on Solaris 10 i386 experience

2007-11-28 Thread zooko
, whenever a new patch is pushed into the central darcs repository for allmydata.org: http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] Building darcs on Solaris 10 i386 experience

2007-11-28 Thread zooko
Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] good user feedback

2007-11-04 Thread zooko
Folks: Please read Brian Warner's comments in this e-mail thread: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-November/000227.html Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue557] Wishlist bug: add safety guards against well-known dangerous actions

2007-11-04 Thread zooko
unrecording or amending patches that have been distributed. +1 Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue559] darcs diff shows misleading and/or nonsensical output on a patch that has conflicted

2007-11-01 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the following transcript, I expect the darcs diff at the end to show that the line added by patch b2 was WHAA, not WHOO. I just ran afoul of this issue in practice, and it took me a little while to realize that darcs was sending me on a wild

[darcs-devel] [issue546] ntvdm.exe takes up max CPU on darcs push to local on win32?

2007-10-08 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks: If I do a darcs put to a local directory on win32, a process named ntvdm.exe starts hammering the CPU and keeps going for many minutes. If I do a pull, the process appears, but then it disappears again shortly. ntvdm.exe is apparently

[darcs-devel] [issue532] repo is reported as inconsistent, but repair doesn't do anything

2007-09-05 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: https://zooko.com/zookobin-copy.tar.bz2 If you untar that repo and run darcs check, it will say the repo is inconsistent, but darcs repair doesn't fix it. Regards, Zooko -- messages: 2122 nosy: beschmi, droundy, kowey, tommy, zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue518] inconsistent repos on Windows after upgrade

2007-08-11 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is interesting. On two different Windows computers of my own, plus Arno's Windows computer, several different repos have turned out to be inconsistent once we upgraded to darcs v1.0.9. Is there any known issue that would cause this? I

[darcs-devel] [issue516] pull incorrectly reports no new patches

2007-08-10 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear darcs hackers: There follows an edited version of a conversation I had with Arno on IRC. He went to bed before I could get him to try to reproduce the problem. --- arnowa: did i mention already that i hate darcs? arnowa: i mean darcs

[darcs-devel] [issue501] failure to push into new (empty) repo with 1.0.9

2007-07-23 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I created a new directory on a remote server named hanford, and ran darcs init therein. (hanford has darcs 1.0.8.) Then I ran darcs push -a from a different computer to try to push stuff into that repo on hanford. The different computer

Re: [darcs-devel] Pristine cache on a single file

2007-07-23 Thread zooko
Today I had a strange idea: why not using sqlite (an embedded database) for data storage? I think this is quite reasonable. That's what monotone has been doing for years. If it didn't work well, they'd have stopped doing it by now. http://monotone.ca Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue498] progress indicators

2007-07-20 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As per this e-mail message: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2007-July/005927.html If darcs is in the process of doing something (in this case fetching metadata from a remote repository), it doesn't do a good enough job of informing

[darcs-devel] the straw that broke the camel's back

2007-07-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
there, and he doesn't know whether it is making progress or is hung. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue497] failure to push into new (empty) repo with 1.0.9

2007-07-10 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... then I tried darcs put instead of darcs push, and I got this (note that I am putting to a directory that doesn't exist -- 1.0.9p): --- wonwin-mcbrootles-computer:~/playground/darcs$ time darcs put [EMAIL PROTECTED]:src/darcs/1.0.9p 21

[darcs-devel] build report: GNU/OpenSolaris

2007-07-06 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: I just installed GNU/OpenSolaris [1] (pretty cool, eh?), and installed GHC 6.6.1, and built darcs 1.0.9. Attached are from configure, make, and make test. The tests didn't quite get full marks, I think, but darcs seems to work. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] Re: build report: GNU/OpenSolaris

2007-07-06 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Attached are the logs I mentioned, and here is the footnote: [1] http://gnusolaris.org zooko.configure.log.rz Description: Binary data zooko.make_test.log.rz Description: Binary data zooko.make.log.rz Description: Binary data On Jul 6, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote

Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch - remove libcurl dependency

2007-06-19 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: My co-worker who complains a lot abot darcs frequently mentions how irritating it is that he tells darcs Go pull thusly now!, and darcs replies by silently hanging. He doesn't know if darcs is making progress and will eventually

[darcs-devel] clue about repository problems

2007-06-19 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
or cmd.exe) then the operating system prevents anyone from rm'ing or mv'ing that directory. If you darcs pull a patch which attempts to do so, then funny things will result. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http

[darcs-devel] [issue478] darcs: getCurrentDirectory: resource exhausted (Too many open files)

2007-06-18 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is on Mac OS X: I did time darcs pull -a -v -v -v. ... [remove unused imports (thanks, pyflakes) Zooko O'Whielacronx [EMAIL PROTECTED]**20070521201943] [remove some unused names (thanks, pyflakes) zooko**20070601200636] [change RandomSet

[darcs-devel] [issue466] C-c during a darcs push leaves a corrupt and unfixable repository

2007-05-23 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was pushing some patches to a local repo when I realized I didn't want to push them and hit C-c. This left a repository with all the patches listed, but with unrecorded changes, and such that darcs check and darcs repair reported nothing wrong. I

Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch: Use System.Process under Unix. (and 1 more)

2007-05-07 Thread zooko
issues. (I use darcs on Mac, Linux, and w32 pretty much every day.) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue336] bug in match name

2006-11-08 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Consider the following two calls (cut-and-pasted from my terminal). How can the presence of that final l make the pattern invalid? darcs v1.0.8. Regards, Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/trees/trunk$ darcs diff -u --match name \dbutil: convert

[darcs-devel] [issue254] presence of a .git directory caused darcs to silently and confusingly fail

2006-08-30 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am working with a linux source tree pulled through git. I couldn't figure out the user interface of git to simply add and record one file, so I gave up and decided to use darcs instead: KERN yumyum:/usr/src/linux$ darcs init KERN yumyum:/usr/src

[darcs-devel] [issue240] darcs get fails: sftp: illegal option -- q

2006-08-11 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here is a cut and paste from bash: Regards, Zooko HACK yumyum:~/work$ time darcs get -v -v -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]:trees/trunk-new-coders Directory '/mnt/sdb1/zooko/work/trunk-new-coders' already exists, creating repository as '/mnt/sdb1/zooko/work

Re: [darcs-devel] [issue240] darcs get fails: sftp: illegal option -- q

2006-08-11 Thread zooko
this: --- Welcome to the darcs darcs repository! This is the stable release branch. ** --- When I build the result, it identifies its version as 1.0.8 (stable branch). Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http

[darcs-devel] darcs mv vs. darcs remove is confusing

2006-08-02 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
that maybe darcs rm could simply print out an error message saying Just rm it. and do nothing else. In any case, he finds the difference between darcs mv and darcs remove to be inexplicably inconsistent. Added a note to issue127. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue127 Regards, Zooko

[darcs-devel] [issue228] I wish for x and p options in darcs record.

2006-08-01 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to be able to use x and p with the behavior that they offer in darcs pull in darcs record. Regards, Zooko (Thanks to RobK for the suggestion.) -- messages: 836 nosy: droundy, robk, tommy, zooko status: unread title: I wish

[darcs-devel] [issue181] can't compile: `seekRepo' is imported more than once

2006-05-29 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Repository.lhs:1:0: Warning: `seekRepo' is imported more than once: imported from DarcsRepo at Repository.lhs:43:0-25 imported from DarcsRepo at Repository.lhs:42:19-26 Repository.lhs:1:0: Warning

[darcs-devel] [issue177] defense against malicious patch file oversteps its bounds

2006-05-23 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using darcs to manage, among other things, another darcs repository. The recent security feature (in 1.0.6 a.k.a. 1.0.7pre1) has caused a problem because it notices that one of the patches is modifying ./trunk/_darcs/prefs/defaults and aborts

[darcs-devel] May I please combine darcs with OpenSSH? (and Eclipse and SWT too?)

2006-05-21 Thread zooko
such as Eclipse and OpenSSH. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

Re: [darcs-devel] May I please combine darcs with OpenSSH? (and Eclipse and SWT too?)

2006-05-21 Thread zooko
with many Free Software Eclipse plugins. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel

[darcs-devel] [issue174] obliterate silently stops when it reaches a tag

2006-05-18 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to obliterate a patch, and darcs exits with No patches selected!. This is because there is a tag which depends on that patch. The bug is that it doesn't offer me to obliterate the tag. Secondarily, the error message doesn't convey

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