There is an old bug with darcs that it sometimes leaves an empty  
directory named something like "darcs-ssh".

darcs 2 has modified this into a new and more troublesome form --  
"darcs get" sometimes leaves an empty directory named "myprojecdarcs- 
ssh" or "myprojectdarcs-ssh", where "myproject" was the name of the  
repository that it was asked to create.

Regards,

Zooko

Zooko,

Thanks for the report. It would be great in the future if your bug reports could
have subjects that were more specific, which makes them more helpful. 

Can you send a long a test sequence which reproduces the issue, preferably in
test-script form?

> The orphaned directories like "myprojecdarcs-ssh" are sometimes
> created when I do a darcs get over ssh on Windows.  I just tried a
> minimal example -- darcs getting an empty repository over ssh -- and
> it didn't reproduce this bug.
>
> It occurs to me that this is probably an interaction between darcs
> and the putty ssh or ftp client.

Sounds related to the controlmaster code, which creates a darcs-ssh
directory in some temporary location to put the cm file.  Directory is
likely created whether or not we actually use it.

I've found (and fixed) the bug which causes this directory to get a name other
than darcs-ssh.  I also believe I have fixed the bug that led to unneeded
creation of darcs-ssh directories in the first place.  Thanks for the bug report!

David

David, 

Looking at this patch that you made:

-  let tmpDarcsSsh = tmp ++ "darcs-ssh"
+  let tmpDarcsSsh = tmp ++ "/darcs-ssh"


Is the embedded "/" going to cause a problem on Windows?

No, windows handles '/' as equivalent to '\\'.