Files whose names start with "_darcs" seem to always be considered boring, even if 
they don't match anything in the boring file, and even if you pass --boring to the 
command.

For example:

$ darcs init
$ touch _darcsfoo
$ darcs whatsnew -ls --boring
No changes!
$ darcs add --boring _darcsfoo 
Skipping boring file _darcsfoo

darcs failed:  No files were added

Thanks for the report.  Do you think I might be able to recruit you into making
a regression test out of this?

http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/RegressionTests

It sounds like it should be careful to block out _darcs/foo but not _darcsfoo.

Thanks!

It gave me a good excuse to install msmtp to get `darcs send' working :)

I followed the (refreshingly simple) instructions from the link and sent the test 
patch.  I'm new to this so please let me know if I need to do anything else (e.g. 
to link this bug up with the patch).

Cool, thanks!  

Just one more thing: if you could just do 'darcs send' without any arguments,
this will send the patch to patches@darcs.net which automatically creates an
entry on our patch tracker.  I'm saying this with the usual hopefulness for
seeing more patches out of you in the future :-D

Hmm, you've either reacted really quickly or anticipated my request, in any case
thanks.  

One more question: what version(s) of darcs does this occur with?

At this stage, we pretty much just need somebody to track down the error and fix
it.  I bet it's easy.

I had sent patch last night to patches@darcs.net, but I guess it took a few hours for 
it to show up.  For the record, it's patch133 .

I'm seeing the bug in darcs version 2.3.1 (release) and 2.3.0 (release) on OS X 
(10.6.2).  I haven't tried any other versions, though I believe it has been this way 
for a while.

I do use darcs quite a bit for personal projects, so I hope to be able to contribute 
more in the future.  Maybe I could even learn some Haskell at some point.

The following patch updated issue issue1726 with status=resolved;resolvedin=2.6.0 HEAD

* Resolve issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always boring 
Ignore-this: d234fe8c508eae75173b30f8bf0eeb61