[Unison-hackers] Bug report from the field...

[Jerome Vouillon]

Thanks for you two bug reports.  Both bugs are now fixed in the
developper version of Unison.

-- Jerome

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:56:18AM -0500, Bill.Costa at unh.edu wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>     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).