Issue 138: --external-merge always creates several copies of repository - Darcs bug tracker

Title	--external-merge always creates several copies of repository
Priority	bug	Status	resolved
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, edwint, kowey, thorkilnaur, tommy
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2006-02-21.10:06:36 by edwint, last changed 2009-08-27.13:47:18 by admin.

Messages
msg501 (view)	Author: edwint	Date: 2006-02-21.10:06:34
When --external-merge is used for a pull, darcs will copy the repository about four times in the process, even if the external merging tool is never actually needed. I reported this a while back ( http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2005-December/009112.html ), saying that I couldn't reproduce it on a small repository. Looking into it again, I've found that it does in fact always do it, but in a small repository the folders were being deleted before Windows noticed that they were there, so I never saw them. Given that, the patch I supplied at the time is less of a dodgy hack than I thought it was, so I'd like to resubmit it as a siggested fix for this. Edwin
msg646 (view)	Author: tommy	Date: 2006-05-13.18:20:34
fixed in 1.0.7 by: Thu Dec 8 15:11:36 CET 2005 edwin.thomson@businesswebsoftware.com * Don't make merge folders when we don't need them

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2006-02-21 10:06:36	edwint	create
2006-05-13 18:20:36	tommy	set	status: unread -> resolved nosy: droundy, tommy, edwint messages: + msg646
2009-08-06 17:33:59	admin	set	nosy: + markstos, jast, Serware, dmitry.kurochkin, darcs-devel, zooko, dagit, mornfall, simon, kowey, beschmi, thorkilnaur, - droundy, edwint
2009-08-06 20:49:11	admin	set	nosy: - beschmi
2009-08-10 21:51:02	admin	set	nosy: + edwint, - markstos, darcs-devel, zooko, jast, dagit, Serware, mornfall
2009-08-25 17:48:41	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-27 13:47:18	admin	set	nosy: tommy, kowey, darcs-devel, edwint, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin