Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory (mtn-0.28) shows added files as unpatched

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:01:50PM -0600, Derek Scherger wrote:
> I think that's a bug in the documentation. The format changed in the
> 0.26 version of monotone with the internal "rosters" stuff. Internally
> monotone no longer considers added files as also patched. Earlier
> versions did record a patch for added files.
> 
> I'll update the docs sometime over the weekend.

Umm, Derek?  'automate' is where we're supposed to actually care about
compatibility -- that we happened to tweak the changeset format is
fine, but I'm sure the connection between that and the inventory
output format is not obvious to people implementing 3rd-party tools,
and this is something that would be have pretty trivial to keep the
same...

That said, we did break 'automate inventory' in 3 released versions
now, so meld should probably learn to handle both whether we put the
P's back or not, and technically we bumped the 'automate' major number
so we were allowed to do this... but I don't want to see us start
shrugging off reports of real broken software, caused by us silently
changing formats that we documented and guaranteed, as "just a
documentation bug".  Why didn't the test suite catch this change?  Or
if it did, why wasn't the documentation updated and the change
flagged in, at the least, the release notes?

-- Nathaniel

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