Re: vc-bzr failed in Windows XP

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2008-07-06 18:38 +0100, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>>>>>> "Leo" == Leo  <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Leo> sha1sum.exe downloaded from
>     Leo> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe.
>
>     Leo> Now when I try to open a file in bzr repo and type C-x v =,
>     Leo> Emacs throws the following backtrace:
>
>     Leo> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 1 41)
>     Leo>   buffer-substring(1 41) 
>
> Try to figure out what the output of "sha1sum" is -- my guess is it's
> not producing any output at all, or just an error.  It looks to me like
> the lisp code is merely assuming that the output contains a 41-byte
> hexencoded SHA1 sum, which will be the case only if the program is
> actually working properly.

In DOS window, sha1sum FILE produces a correct output
(e.g. ae7734e7a54353ab13ecba780ed62344332fbc6f putty.exe).

However in the mentioned elisp, the temp buffer contains only:

,----
| usage: sha1sum filenames
`----

Looks like a bug in that elisp code.

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