[darcs-users] informal poll: do you script interactive darcs?

[Gabriel Kerneis]

Dear David,

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:38:16AM +0100, David Leuschner wrote:
> It's more important that patch files are upwards and downwards
> compatible.  At some time I built the following darcs version "2.7.3
> (+ 300 patches)" but I can't use it to send patches to our "darcs
> patch checker" service (which just applies the patch to a copy of the
> current head repository and runs darcs check --test).  Our "DPC" runs
> darcs 2.3 from Ubuntu and tries to "darcs apply" the patch bundle but
> fails with this message:
> 
> 1 patch for repository darcs.umidev.de:repos/all/DociData:
> 
> Tue Dec 20 10:08:24 CET 2011  wehr at factisresearch.com
>   * TMP: use snapshot of roundtrip-scala
> 
> darcs failed:  Bad patch bundle!
> 
> If I send the patch using darcs 2.5.2 it works.  I'm aware that I used
> a development build so I didn't report this as a bug.

This has probably been introduced by my "patch summary" patches and is indeed
very unfortunate.  Would you mind compiling the latest development version and
report the bug if it is still there (the formatting has changed twice, so it
might have been solved since)?

Best regards,
-- 
Gabriel Kerneis