[Unison-hackers] Bug report from the field...
Bill.Costa at unh.edu
Bill.Costa at unh.edu
Tue Mar 22 07:56:18 EST 2005
Folks,
I tried posting this message to the unison-users group as
recommended in the documentation, but it came back 5 days later as
undeliverable. Hope you don't mind me posting it here instead.
Using the text interface, I have run across the following two bugs
in unison version 2.10.2, running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AS release 3 at one end, and Red Hat 9 at the other (as the
server).
* File name with a leading space: When asked for a disposition, I
entered ignore (I). The ignore record indeed gets written to
the
.unison/default.prf
file, but then Unison re-prompts for an action on that same file.
(Repeating the Ignore will write additional identical records to
the preference file and you will not proceed past that file.)
Skipping the file and then restarting, the offending file will
still not be ignored. I guessing that since the file name is
not being quoted in the preference file, the leading space is
getting ignored when doing file name comparisons. (Having a
filename that starts with a space is admittedly pathological,
but...) BTW, I have not tried replicating such a file nor
tested this more than one file.
* If you start a sync with a new target system, the (normal)
warning message appears:
... judged as new and propagated to the other replica.
If the two replicas are identical, then no changes will be reported.
Press return to continue.[<spc>]
Pressing 'n', 'q', or 'x' to exit will indeed get you out, but
the cursor is not advanced to a new line and the original
terminal settings are not restored (i.e. echo remains turned
off).
These are really minor bugs, but I thought the folks maintaining
this wonderful utility would want to know nonetheless.
...BC
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