Mads Lindstrøm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wanted to convert a darcs 1 repo to darcs 2 format and I was feeling
> adventures, so I did (ok, I had backed the repo up before trying):
>
>> darcs convert .
>
> But it seemed to not change my repo. It still says it is a darcs 1 repo.
> So what did the command do?
darcs convert creates a new directory containing the repository in
darcs-2 format. AFAIK it doesn't make any changes to the source
directory. The normal way of using it would be like this:
$ # we make an old-style repo "foo" to demonstrate:
$ darcs init --repodir foo --old-fashioned-inventory
$ darcs convert foo
WARNING: [...]
Directory '/tmp/with-temp-dir.qVvdsj/foo' already exists, creating
repository as '/tmp/with-temp-dir.qVvdsj/foo_0'
Finished converting.
$ ls
foo foo_0
The darcs-2 repo is now in foo_0.
If we do it the expected way, which is how you did it, we get this:
$ darcs init --repodir foo --old-fashioned-inventory
$ cd foo
$ darcs convert .
WARNING: [...]
Finished converting.
$ ls
_darcs foo
$ ls foo
_darcs
Oops! Now we have the darcs-2 repo inside the darcs-1 repo. You can
fix this by just doing "mv foo ../foo_0", but I agree it's not obvious
what has happened.
Note that this is the confusing behaviour as "darcs get .":
$ darcs init --repodir foo
$ cd foo
$ darcs get .
Finished getting.
$ ls
_darcs foo
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