Re: [eclipsedarcs-develop] darcs get failure from eclipsedarcs repo

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2007/3/16, Kauker, Hubert <Hub...@tr...>:
> Thanks a lot,
>
> darcs get --partial --verbose http://...
>
> works all right.
> Very fast - I am impressed.
>
> Also simple "darcs get" went past patch 37 this morning.
> Killed it myself at patch 100 or so, since my patience was up.
>
> Anyway, a rather strange message:
> libcurl: HTTP error (404?).
>
> What puzzles me is the question mark.
> Obviously libcurl or some other module higher up was doing some guesswork.
> Under normal conditions a 404 error and a timeout, say, should be easy to
> tell apart. Right?

Right, but that is no question for eclipsedarcs mailing list. ;) But
to share the opinion, darcs doesn't do good job informing about
abnormal situation. For example, yesterday I've run darcs check. The
output was something like

$ darcs check
  The repository is inconsistent!
  Nothing!

Now go figure. ;)

Furtunatly 'darcs repair' fixed the state (by giving no explanation either).

That is why I have started to learn Haskell. ;)

Cheers,
  Radek.