Hello list.

darcs remove * -r fails if it's used in the root of the darcs 
repository.

c:\test>darcs remove * -r
Can't remove _darcs/format (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/hashed_inventory (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/index (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/index.old (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/lock (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/tentative_hashed_inventory (it is not tracked by 
darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/tentative_pristine (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/patches/pending (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/patches/pending.tentative (it is not tracked by 
darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/patches/pending_buggy (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/prefs/binaries (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/prefs/boring (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove _darcs/prefs/motd (it is not tracked by darcs)
Can't remove 
_darcs/pristine.hashed/da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 (it is 
not tracked by darcs)
darcs: bug at src\Darcs\Repository\Internal.hs:339 compiled Mar  2 2010 
17:44:36
There was an attempt to write an invalid pending!
If possible, please send the contents of _darcs/patches/pending_buggy
along with a bug report.
See http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/BugTrackerHowto for help on bug 
reporting.

It seems that it tries to remove all the files, even if they are not in 
the repository. I know it's the right behaviour, but apparently it fails 
with _darcs dir.

I'm using 

2.4 (release) under Windows Vista.

Bye,

L.M.

Yuck! Could we have a test case for that, please, Luca?
http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/RegressionTests

Thanks!

This is now in progress and we already have a test case for it.

The following patch updated the status of issue1765 to be resolved:

* resolve issue1765: refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively 
Ignore-this: ee68c106b9320035e66563387c82d1de

The modifyTree function from hashed-storage makes any directories on the path
to modify exist. When removing a non-tracked file, this made darcs assume that
its parent directory was tracked, even when it wasn't.

This patch makes darcs do the modifyTree only when the remove of a file
actually succeeded, so that when a remove of a non-tracked file fails, darcs
won't have a data structure that reflects a world where this removal succeeded.

The following patch updated issue issue1765 with resolvedin=2.5.0 (current)

* resolve issue1765: refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively 
Ignore-this: ee68c106b9320035e66563387c82d1de

The modifyTree function from hashed-storage makes any directories on the path
to modify exist. When removing a non-tracked file, this made darcs assume that
its parent directory was tracked, even when it wasn't.

This patch makes darcs do the modifyTree only when the remove of a file
actually succeeded, so that when a remove of a non-tracked file fails, darcs
won't have a data structure that reflects a world where this removal succeeded.