I send you this in case it has not yet been reported.
Note that this occurs in a case where "darcs check" previously reports 
an error "can't read patch ..."

$ darcs resolve
darcs: bug in darcs!
fromJust error at Resolution.lhs:218 compiled 12:16:19 Jun 18 2007
Please report this to bugs@darcs.net,
If possible include the output of 'darcs --exact-version'.

$ darcs --exact-version
darcs compiled on Jun 18 2007, at 12:23:08
# configured Sat Jun 16 09:59:48 PDT 2007
./configure /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site

Context:

[TAG 1.0.9
Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>**20070603213706]

Thanks
F

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:51:17PM -0000, Firmicus wrote:
> I send you this in case it has not yet been reported.
> Note that this occurs in a case where "darcs check" previously reports 
> an error "can't read patch ..."

Is this a partial repository, then? Or do you have an idea why the patch
can't be read?
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University

Not exactly, but I may have screwed something some time back. Since 
there were very few patches in this repo I have moved _darcs to 
_darcs_old and reinitialized it. It would be nice if darcs would me more 
verbose when giving the error message "can't read patch", but I assume 
this is already on your TODO list ;)

BTW, is there currently a way to customize darcs so that the dist 
command produces a zip file instead of a tarball?

Thanks for your nice work on darcs. This and the Perl6 implementation 
pugs have even aroused my interest enough to read a short introduction 
to Haskell, which I enjoyed, even though I have not yet written any 
program in this language.

Best,
Francois Charette

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Not exactly, but I may have screwed something some time back. Since 
there were very few patches in this repo I have moved _darcs to 
_darcs_old and reinitialized it. It would be nice if darcs would me more 
verbose when giving the error message "can't read patch", but I assume 
this is already on your TODO list ;)

BTW, is there currently a way to customize darcs so that the dist 
command produces a zip file instead of a tarball?

Thanks for your nice work on darcs. This and the Perl6 implementation 
pugs have even aroused my interest enough to read a short introduction 
to Haskell, which I enjoyed, even though I have not yet written any 
program in this language.

Best,
Francois Charette

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Francois,

I'm closing this issue now because there is no further information to proceed
and you mentioned yourself that you have might have messed something up on your
end. 

Regarding your question about "darcs dist" making a zip file. That would have
been good to ask on the "darcs-user" list. 

I don't think there's a way to make a zip file that's built in. You could write
a command to be run via the "posthook" feature thatn would unpack the tgz file
and re-pack it as a zip file. By saving this function in your preference file,
the appearance would in fact be that "darcs dist" is creating a zip file for you
each time...it would just take slightly longer. :)