I just got an error message from Darcs saying "bug in darcs!  There was an
attempt to write an invalid pending!"

I was trying to record a patch that added a new file, and I was using the
"--ask" option to mark it as depending on an old file.

I managed to reproduce the bug with a fairly minimal test case.  I'm
attaching a .tar.gz of the state of my workspace before the bug occurred, a
transcript of my interaction with Darcs, and the pending_buggy file.

Darcs was running on x86 Linux, Debian testing distribution.

Thanks so much for your attention.  Darcs is a wonderful tool.

Paul Berry

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Thanks for this, especially the minimal test case.

darcs-devel: I have not attempted to reproduce this. Please check the test case
for yourself.

This appears to have been fixed in 1.0.9 (although I can't figure out which of
the changes --from-tag=1.0.9rc1 --to-tag=1.0.9) did it.  I cannot reproduce the
buggy pending.  Thanks for the bug report.