I'm surprised if this hasn't been reported already, but I couldn't see
it in the tracker.

I get the following with either darcs 1.0.8 or the current development
sources.  A partial get of the stable repo works, as does a
non-partial get of the unstable one.

 $ darcs get --partial http://www.abridgegame.org /repos/darcs-unstable
 This is the head (unstable) branch of darcs.
 **********************
 Copying patch 210 of 210... done!
 darcs: failed to read patch in get_extra:
 Thu Nov 16 14:03:51 GMT 2006  Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
   tagged 1.0.9rc2
 Perhaps this is a 'partial' repository?

As I understand it, this has been fixed.  No need to update your darcs.

Huh, what? I think I spoke too soon.  Sorry!  But I think we'll have this fixed
shortly. (Let these not be famous last words)

Ok, so for starters, the unstable repository now lives at
 http://www.darcs.net/repos/unstable

Secondly, the partial get seems to fetch all patches.  Should I run optimize
--checkpoint there, Tommy or do you think bad things would happen?

> Secondly, the partial get seems to fetch all patches.  Should I run optimize
> --checkpoint there, Tommy or do you think bad things would happen?

There is a bug in <= 1.0.9 that can make old checkpoints bad if
you run 'optimize --reorder'. One way to get rid of them is to
'rm _darcs/checkpoints/*'. Running 'optimize --checkpoint' again
generates a new (valid) checkpoint, that overwrites the bad one,
so this is another way, if you know exactly which checkpoints
are bad.

Ok, so I did a darcs get and then

 darcs optimize
 rm _darcs/checkpoints/*
 darcs optimize --checkpoint
 darcs optimize --reorder

And swapped out the two repositories... so it seems to be fixed now (get
--partial fetches only 321 patches)

Eric Kow <bugs@darcs.net> writes:

> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Ok, so for starters, the unstable repository now lives at
>  http://www.darcs.net/repos/unstable

Where should one look for that info?  E.g.
http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DeveloperFAQ says it's at
abridgegame.org.

Oops.  I've fixed that URL and others.  Do let me know if you find more.  I'll
also send out a notice with the next round of patches.   Thanks.