Re: Re: cannot use darcs to control my systems-config because darcs diff doesnt work if darcs repos is (yes, i mean root)

Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> On 2005-01-28 18:09:29 +0100, Sean Perry <shaleh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> >
> > > i can see a few ways of making this work -
> > >
> > > - change [repos]-old, [repos]-new to old-[repos] and [new]-repos(*)
> > > - change the dash '-' to some other character
> > > - add a double dash to the comman-line of diff so that it "know" that 
> > > the following args are files/folder (only works with gnu diff)
> > This form of marking the end of the dash-parameters should be 
> > preferred. diff is not too much of an issue, but commands like rm and 
> > the like can easily be confused by names like '-force'.
> hi,
> don't you think that (a) [ "new-repos" instead of "repos-new" ] would be 
> the safest bet as not all utilities are guaranteed to understand '--'.
that gets us around this problem. Not using the double dash when calling 
shell programs is a bug waiting to happen.
The real answer to the bug is to properly use absolute file names, so 
/-old would be fine.