[Monotone-devel] Re: some (negative) feedback -- useful reading

[Bruce Stephens]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> There was a period when that happened to me while working with
> monotone as well, when I pulled net.venge.monotone* and there were
> propagations or something coming from some other branch.  Since
> those were branches I wasn't interested in, but the revisions were
> necessary to have the complete history, monotone simply discarded
> the "offending" branch certs (and yes, it means that there were a
> number of revisions without any branch in my repository).  When that
> happened, I got exactly the error message that's shown in that
> thread.

Ah, OK.  That makes sense (it's exactly what I'd expect to happen in
that situation).  That's a feature, though, not a bug.  Maybe the
error message wants tweaking, to explain what's happening.

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