[darcs-users] Re: Re: Annotate doesn't recognize anything

[Matthew Palmer]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
> > Alexander Staubo wrote:
> > > This is a partial repository, in case it matters. However, annotate is
> > > supposed to work fine with partial repos.
> >
> > I think that's your problem.  I've just made my first partial repo, and
> > annotate doesn't work right, with exactly the problem you've described.
> > It's simple to reproduce (without needing trade secrets!):
> [...]
> > Since operations that need a patch which isn't available in the partial repo
> > are documented to fail, I don't see it as a bug that annotate fails, but I
> > certainly think the error message could be less confusing...
> 
> Thanks for clearing that up.
> 
> I'm surprised that Darcs does not fall back to the checkpoint to get
> the patches it needs, though.

You mean retrieve the extra patches from the parent repo?  --lazy does that,
I think (not available in 1.0.9, only in the 1.1.0 pre-releases).

(The rest of your comments I'm not qualified to discuss, so I'll leave that
to someone with knowledge of darcs internals)

- Matt

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