Hello,

when I try to get the sources from the partial darcs repository, darcs
get fails with this not so user friendly message:

karel@silence:/tmp$ darcs get /export/home/karel/vcs/lambdavm/ ttt
darcs:
/export/home/karel/vcs/lambdavm/_darcs/patches/20061021035829-6295e-23f0c4f64186e2509d70dfd94848be3176f5f0fc.gz:
copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
karel@silence:/tmp$

I think darcs should somehow detect that it tries to perform get from
partial repository and then warn user with clear message like:

"You attempt to perform get from the partial repository which is not
possible. If you still like to get the sources, try to use get --partial
to get partial repository"

or something like that.

Thanks!
Karel

I could have sworn that this was a duplicate bug.

First question for darcs hackers: is there any easy/cheap way for us to detect
if a repository is a partial one?

Karel: this sounds like something which should be easy to submit a test case for:
http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/RegressionTests

Could we ask you for one?

Hi Karel,

This indeed is a duplicate (of issue145).  I'm closing this bug and adding you
there.  Thanks!