[darcs-users] `darcs send` only working with -o

[Ash Moran]

On 2 Sep 2011, at 14:56, Eric Kow wrote:

> I'm afraid the answer boils down to "don't do that"
> (copy and paste patch bundles)
> 
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 14:17:36 +0100, Ash Moran wrote:
>> What is causing this?
>> 
>> There are differences in whitespace but I don't know if they're
>> significant.
> 
> The differences in whitespace are indeed significant.  In this
> particular case, darcs parsed the bundle all the way to the bits
> after 'Context: '. The file format uses an initial whitespace before
> each line of the patch log, which avoids ambiguities stemming from patch
> logs with things that look like the darcs file format.

Ahhh… I see what's happened now. Either on the sending or receiving side, Mail.app has removed the preceding whitespace before "Ignore-this:", and all the padding to separate out the +/- line prefix in the hunks.

Does this mean you can't use `darcs send` directly with Mail.app? If not, this kinda spoils it for me, as otherwise it works like magic :-(

> Entering thought experiment space: if by chance the Context was fine,
> then (by rights) you should have be saved from applying a bad patch
> through a patch bundle hash failure.  If you defeated this by removing
> the patch bundle hash, you might successfully apply the patches but then
> run into trouble working with your collaborator later on because you
> would have applied a subtly different patch but with the same id.
> 
> So avoid copy+pasting, and while I'm at it,
> don't fight the hash failures... :-) 

If I can't copy-paste, does that mean I always have to ask for patch bundles generated by `darcs send -o`?

BTW, don't worry, I had no intention of even trying to fiddle with the hashes :)

Cheers
Ash

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