WARNING: bogus patch pushed

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu Aug 14 21:25:32 EDT 2008


This was a taste of the insanity of trying to run a project on two  
vcs...

Manuel


Thomas Schilling:
> Ok, my solution was actually not so correct.  If Simon would push his
> amended patch, this would have led to a conflict in darcs.  I now
> unpulled both the manual UNDO patch and the original patch.
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Schilling
> <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, naturally, unpulling from darcs doesn't unpull from the git repo
>> and the darcs repo it is based on.
>> In case we ever have to do this again (hopefully not), here's what  
>> i did:
>>
>> $ git log    # to find out the commit id
>> $ git revert <commit-id>  # create an invert commit
>> $ git status       # should report no changes
>> # now git has changed the working directory, so darcs will think
>> there are new changes
>> # this we have to create a manual revert on the darcs side.
>> $ darcs record -a
>> $ darcs whatsnew
>> No changes.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Schilling
>> <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if that broke the Git mirror...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Malcolm Wallace
>>> <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bother!  I did not mean to push the patch below.
>>>>> Can someone who knows what they are doing expunge it from the HEAD
>>>>> repo and tell me what actions I need to take at this end?
>>>>
>>>> Although the usual policy is not to permit "unpull"s on the main  
>>>> repo, I
>>>> have unpulled this patch anyway.  If anyone (or any buildbot) has  
>>>> pulled
>>>> this patch in the meantime, they should unpull it manually from  
>>>> their
>>>> own repo.  I hope this does not inconvenience anyone too much.
>>>>
>>>> Simon: you only need to amend-record your patch and push it again  
>>>> when
>>>> it is correct.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>   Malcolm
>>>>
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