Literally, a boring problem

Hi all,

By error, I added a patch which recorded autom4te.cache
folder. Now I added:
(^|/)autom4te.cache($|/)

this line to the boring file, hoping that darcs now removed
the
folders but unfortunately it doesn't (darcs 1.0.7):
$ darcs whatsnew -ls
...
M ./autom4te.cache/output.0 -3481 +5164
...

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Cheers,

-- 
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt
Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~
pocm
Computer and Software Engineering
INESC-ID - SAT Group

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Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> By error, I added a patch which recorded autom4te.cache
folder. Now I 
> added:
> (^|/)autom4te.cache($|/)
> 
> this line to the boring file, hoping that darcs now
removed the
> folders but unfortunately it doesn't (darcs 1.0.7):
> $ darcs whatsnew -ls
> ...
> M ./autom4te.cache/output.0 -3481 +5164
> ...
> 
> Any ideas what the problem might be?
> 

Darcs doesn't and shouldn't remove anything
"implicitly": you have to 
explicitly remove that file (either with darcs rm, or with a
plain rm), 
and record a new patch with that fact. From then on, darcs
won't 
consider that file anymore (I assume the .cache file is a
trow-away 
file, more in general, you move it somewhere safe, register
the patch, 
and move it back!).

hth,
ciao, lele.

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