Owen Stephens wrote: > On 18 July 2012 14:45, Benjamin Franksen < > [email protected]> wrote: >> A long-time issue I have with darcs is that I cannot use read-only >> repositories, even with commands that -- semantically speaking -- do not >> change the repository, such as 'darcs whatsnew'. > > How does one create a read-only repo? Or do you mean manually chmodding > the files?
Yes, that's what I meant. >> I am almost sure the issue has come up before and there is probably an >> ancient entry in the bug tracker somewhere. Anyway, thought I might > mention >> it as a sort of reminder. > > Yes, I think this is issue1959[1]. > > See the IRC log[2] for some discussion between Ganesh and myself about why > it's > not "obvious" that it shouldn't happen. Thanks for the pointers. >> If you think this belongs to the 'probably easy' category, I might try to >> fix this myself. > > I'm not sure, I don't know much about the Cache code, but it would be > welcome > if you do have a poke around and see what you can find out. I imagine we'd > want > just stop darcs dying if it fails to write to a cache (that's without > thinking > about it though). Right, that seems reasonable. I'll take a look. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
