Re: [Monotone-devel] path names on win32

[Jon Bright]

Hi Connor,

Connor Berry wrote:
> It seems like Monotone wants any absolute path to start with the Unix root 
> directory / and it doesn't deal with win32 drive letters well.
> Because of this it seems that the database must be on the same drive as 
> Monotone, and the working directory must also  be on the same drive.

I have mentioned a couple of possible fixes for this problem to Graydon. 
 I'll hopefully get some time this week to work up a further patch 
against Monotone to fix some of the remaining Windows issues.

In the meantime, a workaround is to use paths without drive letters - 
\Documents and Settings\...\test.db should work ok.

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Jon Bright
Silicon Circus Ltd.
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