Issue 536: darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo

Title	darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo
Priority	bug	Status	duplicate
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder	darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo View: 535	Nosy List	claus.reinke, cvs-ghc, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, simonpj, thorkilnaur, tommy
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Created on 2007-09-18.07:49:26 by simonpj, last changed 2009-08-27.13:51:53 by admin.

msg2130 (view)

Author: simonpj

Date: 2007-09-18.07:49:25

| is darcs really not useable with partial repos? that would be a pain.
| i know that several ghc developers have already given up on partial
| repos (there's even a good old-fashioned tarball to start from...).

As Ian says, no, darcs doesn't work with partial repos.  The only solution we know is to start from a recent tarball (to bypass using darcs to pull the first 15000 patches), and then do darcs pull to bring it up to date.  That way you are always working on a full repo.  Sigh.

Simon

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2007-09-18 07:49:27	simonpj	create
2007-09-21 17:00:21	droundy	set	status: unread -> duplicate nosy: claus.reinke, cvs-ghc, droundy, simonpj, tommy, kowey, beschmi superseder: + darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo
2009-08-06 17:46:01	admin	set	nosy: + markstos, jast, Serware, dmitry.kurochkin, darcs-devel, zooko, dagit, mornfall, simon, thorkilnaur, - droundy, simonpj, cvs-ghc, claus.reinke
2009-08-06 20:41:43	admin	set	nosy: - beschmi
2009-08-10 22:08:25	admin	set	nosy: + claus.reinke, simonpj, cvs-ghc, - markstos, darcs-devel, zooko, jast, dagit, Serware, mornfall
2009-08-25 17:57:49	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-27 13:51:53	admin	set	nosy: tommy, kowey, darcs-devel, simonpj, cvs-ghc, thorkilnaur, claus.reinke, dmitry.kurochkin

Issue 536 darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo