Hmm...I thought I just added a directory and a Makefile, but pushing
it doesn't seem to work?  Here's the entire transcript, let me know if
you want more information!

-k

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polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs add .

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs add Makefile

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs what
{
adddir ./src/test
addfile ./src/test/Makefile
hunk ./src/test/Makefile 1
+
+  [..contents snipped..]
+
}

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs rec -am "added (simple) test case"
Finished recording patch 'added (simple) test case'

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs what
No changes!

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs push
darcs: bug in darcs!
Can't make_dotdots on an absolute path:  /test
Please report this to bugs@darcs.net,
If possible include the output of 'darcs --exact-version'.

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs --exact-version
darcs compiled on Jan 17 2006, at 03:05:19
unknown

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs --version
1.0.5 (release)

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % which darcs
/usr/bin/darcs

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % uname -a
Linux polarvier 2.6.15-22-386 #1 PREEMPT Sun May 7 15:49:09 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS \n \l

polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % dpkg -L darcs
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/darcs
    [...more snippage...]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:19:41PM +0000, Ketil Malde wrote:
> Hmm...I thought I just added a directory and a Makefile, but pushing
> it doesn't seem to work?  Here's the entire transcript, let me know if
> you want more information!

Can you create a script to reproduce this? You're using a rather old
darcs, so my first guess would be that this has already been fixed, so
if we have a test case we can run to check whether it's still present,
that would be great!
-- 
David Roundy

David Roundy <bugs@darcs.net> writes:

> David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net> added the comment:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:19:41PM +0000, Ketil Malde wrote:
>> Hmm...I thought I just added a directory and a Makefile, but pushing
>> it doesn't seem to work?  Here's the entire transcript, let me know if
>> you want more information!

> Can you create a script to reproduce this? 

Hmm.. I tried for a bit, but haven't been able to yet.

> You're using a rather old darcs,

I know - it's what ships with Ubuntu, though.

> so my first guess would be that this has already been fixed, so
> if we have a test case we can run to check whether it's still present,
> that would be great!

Workaround is to cd out of the freshly added directory, and do the
push from there.  So it's not like it's a showstopper or anything.

-k
-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

Ketil Malde wrote:
> polarvier:~/work/rbr/src/test % darcs push
> darcs: bug in darcs!
> Can't make_dotdots on an absolute path:  /test
> Please report this to bugs@darcs.net,
> If possible include the output of 'darcs --exact-version'.
> 

Could it be that there's no default repository to push to? If so, this 
should be "solved" in a more recent darcs, in that it prints a better 
message explaining that. What does your _darcs/prefs/defaultrepo contain?

bye, lele.

Marking as resolved.  Please re-open if you run into this with a newer darcs.