Darcs maintainers,
Below is a bug report from a Debian user (coincidentally, also me).
The associated Debian BTS ticket is http://bugs.debian.org/458629.
Please ensure that 458629@bugs.debian.org remains in the nosy list for
this roundup ticket.
This bug still exists in 2.0.0.
> Where x is a repository and y is a patch bundle,
>
> $ darcs apply --repodir x ./y
> darcs: y: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>
> This behaviour is confusing, and the error message is unhelpful.
> Once it occurs to the user to try
>
> $ darcs apply --repodir x $PWD/y
> Finished applying...
>
> It becomes obvious that is chdir'ing before attempting to access the
> patch bundle. Either it should not do so, or it should print a more
> meaningful error message (for example, including the absolute path
> that it tried to open).
Note that this is not limited to apply; other commands are affected:
$ mkdir x y
$ map darcs init --repodir -- x y
$ darcs pull --repodir x y
darcs failed: Not a repository: y (y/_darcs/inventory: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory))
$ darcs pull --repodir x $PWD/y
No remote changes to pull in!
$ darcs push --repodir x y
darcs failed: Not a repository: y (y/_darcs/inventory: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory))
$ darcs push --repodir x $PWD/y
Pushing to "/tmp/with-temp-dir.G26031/y"...
No recorded local changes to push!
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