Issue 717: trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory - Darcs bug tracker

Title	trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory
Priority	wishlist	Status	given-up
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	SamB, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, thorkilnaur, tommy
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2008-03-01.19:50:04 by SamB, last changed 2023-03-29.08:55:43 by bfrk.

Messages
msg3705 (view)	Author: SamB	Date: 2008-03-01.19:50:02
Trackdown currently does not create a full repository in which to run the test. This makes it difficult to test things that use information from the _darcs directory in the build process (for instance, jhc).
msg4720 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-05-15.18:17:19
What kind of information do you use from the _darcs directory?
msg7055 (view)	Author: thorkilnaur	Date: 2009-01-12.10:48:11
We seem to need some additional information here. SamB, do you still have this wish? Anyone else? Thanks and best regards Thorkil
msg7071 (view)	Author: SamB	Date: 2009-01-12.20:28:48
Well, one use I've seen is to check what the latest tag is and how many patches past that the version being built is ...
msg8720 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2009-09-06.20:46:10
Perhaps trackdown could be re-implemented using darcs get and unpull so that the test directory is just another darcs repository.
msg23225 (view)	Author: bfrk	Date: 2023-03-29.08:55:42
Completely unrealistic. This would slow down darcs trackdown (sadly renamed to `darcs test`) considerably. Besides, your build process should work without _darcs present, else you could never even ship a source distribution as a tar ball.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-03-01 19:50:04	SamB	create
2008-03-03 23:06:06	SamB	set	priority: feature -> bug nosy: droundy, tommy, beschmi, kowey, SamB title: trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory -> there is no trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory
2008-03-28 15:06:01	droundy	set	priority: bug -> wishlist nosy: droundy, tommy, beschmi, kowey, SamB
2008-05-15 18:17:20	kowey	set	status: unread -> unknown nosy: + dagit messages: + msg4720
2009-01-12 10:48:14	thorkilnaur	set	status: unknown -> waiting-for nosy: + dmitry.kurochkin, simon, thorkilnaur messages: + msg7055
2009-01-12 20:28:51	SamB	set	nosy: droundy, tommy, beschmi, kowey, dagit, SamB, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin messages: + msg7071
2009-08-06 17:55:16	admin	set	nosy: + markstos, jast, Serware, darcs-devel, zooko, mornfall, - droundy, SamB
2009-08-06 20:59:17	admin	set	nosy: - beschmi
2009-08-10 22:16:35	admin	set	nosy: + SamB, - markstos, darcs-devel, zooko, jast, Serware, mornfall
2009-08-11 00:08:01	admin	set	nosy: - dagit
2009-08-25 17:38:53	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-27 14:14:47	admin	set	nosy: tommy, kowey, darcs-devel, SamB, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin
2009-09-06 20:46:12	kowey	set	status: waiting-for -> needs-implementation nosy: tommy, kowey, darcs-devel, SamB, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin messages: + msg8720 title: there is no trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory -> trackdown option to include _darcs in test directory
2023-03-29 08:55:43	bfrk	set	status: needs-implementation -> given-up messages: + msg23225