[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn add weirdness

[Bruce Stephens]

Koen Kooi <address@hidden> writes:

> Nathaniel Smith schreef:

[...]

>> 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'?

How is it broken?  Monotone's not alone in behaving this way;
subversion certainly does, for example.

>> 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.

I can't see that would cause particular problems.  I must admit the
current behaviour also feels quite logical.