[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn add weirdness

[Koen Kooi]

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Nathaniel Smith schreef:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:43:17PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> address@hidden:~/OE/monotone/org.openembedded.dev/packages$ mtn commit
>> nonworking/gutenprint/gutenprint_5.0.0.bb
> 
> ^^ Oh, I see, I miseed this line before -- 0.27 had a bug where
> _unrestricted_ commits would give weird error messages like this, but
> you actually are doing a restricted commit.
> 
>> mtn: warning: restriction excludes addition of
>> 'packages/nonworking/gutenprint' but includes addition of
>> 'packages/nonworking/gutenprint/gutenprint_5.0.0.bb'
>> mtn: misuse: invalid restriction
> 
> So, umm... you did in fact tell monotone to commit just the addition
> of the .bb file, and not the addition of the directory containing it.
> For obvious (I think?) reasons, that Just Can't Be Done :-).

Can you say 'broken behaviour'?

> Would a different error message have made this more clear?  Is there
> some other behavior you would have preferred?

I think the preferred behaviour is obvious: the file and its
'dependencies' are committed to the db.
If that really can't be done, I'd like to have a big fat note on the
monotone site were I can point our poor developers to, so I don't have
to spend too much time listining to "monotone sucks, you should use git"
complaints....
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