Hi,

I’m using darcs in Windows XP with SP2 (the binaries available online) and
I’m having troubles with darcs diff.

If it is of interest the repository is in a partition in FAT32.

Currently I’m using darcs 1.0.7 but I tried 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 and the same
problem arises; it complains that some directories do not exist. 

Just guessing, but something related with forward / backslash path separator
in unix / windows?

D:\Dout\INblobs>darcs diff

plink: unknown option "-O"

diff: old-INblobs/: No such file or directory

diff: new-INblobs/: No such file or directory

I had used darcs diff in the past in another windows installation but that
one had Cygwin and everything was ok.

Is possible to get a binary with this solved?

Best 

Miguel Vilaça

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Sounds like a bug.  Maybe something do with the temporary directory?
Miguel, could you try setting DARCS_TMP?

jmvilaca,

To make headway with this bug, we need to know if it is a still a problem for
you. Did ever find out why you are getting the error: "plink: unknown option
"-O"  ?  
Please retest with one of the Darcs2 binaries available here: 

http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTwo

If we don't hear back that it continues to be a bug, we'll eventually close this
bug report.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:51:30 -0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Did ever find out why you are getting the error: "plink: unknown option
> "-O"  ?  

This particular point is a bug that I had introduced in 1.0.7, and has
long been fixed.

No comment on the diff stuff, however.

I'm now using darcs 1.0.9 on windows and the "plink: unknown option "-O" message
gone away.

Although
D:\INblobs>darcs diff
old-INblobs-1/: No such file or directory
new-INblobs-1/: No such file or directory
diff: diff:

I check DARCS_TMP and DARCS_TMPDIR and are both ok. But 
D:\INblobs>darcs whatsnew
No changes!

I just change diff to whatsnew.
So its perfectly ok for me.

jmvilaca, can you think of anything unusual about your setup that would trigger
this error?

Can try running

darcs diff --diff-cmd='ls %1 %2'

and

darcs diff --diff-cmd=pwd

and let us know what the output is in each case?

Thanks!

David

Hi Miguel,

Could you do these tests for us, or perhaps let us know if everything is working
fine now with darcs 2.0.0?  Quoting David:

Can try running

darcs diff --diff-cmd='ls %1 %2'

and

darcs diff --diff-cmd=pwd

and let us know what the output is in each case?

Hi Miguel,

You filed a bug report a couple of years ago about doing darcs diff under
Windows.  Could I just check to see if it's still misbehaving for you with a
recent Darcs?

Also maybe you could try the following:

darcs diff --diff-cmd='dir %1 %2'

Thanks!

Hi Eric,

Sorry for the late reply, but I moved away from Windows and i needed  
to went to an old machine that I had.

I change darcs to version 2.3 and now "darcs diff" do the job just  
fine, in the same repository.

This variant don't work; it don't recognize --diff-cmd.

best regards
Miguel

Em 2009/09/04, às 09:40, Eric Kow escreveu:

>
> Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
>
> Hi Miguel,
>
> You filed a bug report a couple of years ago about doing darcs diff  
> under
> Windows.  Could I just check to see if it's still misbehaving for  
> you with a
> recent Darcs?
>
> Also maybe you could try the following:
>
> darcs diff --diff-cmd='dir %1 %2'
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----------
> assignedto: jmvilaca ->
> title: diff => No such file or directory (1.0.7, Windows) -> diff =>  
> No such file or directory (1.0.9, Windows)
>
> __________________________________
> Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue398>
> __________________________________

Thanks for going through the trouble!  We don't know what fixed it, but I'll
mark this resolved anyway.

As for --diff-cmd, we asked for the wrong thing, should be --diff-command