[darcs-users] darcs check

[trb at categorical.net]

Tommy Pettersson writes:
 > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:51:58AM -0800, trb at categorical.net wrote:
 > > Eric Y. Kow writes:
 > >  > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 14:48:51 -0800, trb at categorical.net wrote:
 > >  > > If a repository passes 'darcs check', does that mean there is nothing wrong with
 > >  > > it ? By "wrong" I mean anything that could cause inconsistency.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Unless I am mistaken, darcs check merely attempts to apply all patches
 > >  > from scratch.  If nothing goes wrong, it is happy.
 > > 
 > > It seems that way. The question is whether that is enough to guarantee that the
 > > repo will not cause inconsistent behaviour.
 > 
 > Just dropping in to point out (the maybe obvious) that --partial
 > is default for 'darcs check'. Unless the --complete flag is
 > specified, 'darcs check' only checks patches after the latest
 > checkpoint.

Good point.

My repository, where darcs behaves inconsistently, passes 
'darcs check --complete' too.

Tim