[darcs-users] Some trouble with latest darcs

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:46:30PM +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> >>>>> "Lele" == Lele Gaifax <lele at nautilus.homeip.net> writes:
> 
>     Lele> I will try to narrow down the problem...
> 
> Just tried with latest pullable darcs, rebuilding it from scratch, but
> still it does not work inside this repository_, that contains just an
> initial patch and some unrecorded changes.
> 
> Latest darcs does not complete neither "whatsnew" nor "record -a",
> while with 0.9.23 and earlier 1.0 everything works as usual.
> 
> I guess the problem may be related to the recent changes to the way
> diff gets computed in presence of empty new lines, as the changes
> applied to the working copy come from a "Whitespace cleaning" upstream
> patch and look like:

Yep, you're correct, although the algorithm change didn't specifically
involve newlines, it was just the number of hunks that was causing trouble.
I was (unknowingly) using an algorithm exponential in the number of hunks.
I believe it's fixed now (assuming the fix passes tests--if not it'll
have to wait for tomorrow).
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org