[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn add weirdness

[Koen Kooi]

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Bruce Stephens schreef:
> 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.

I absolutely *hate* subversion and its messed up UI, so your argument
only worsens the case for me.

>>> 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.

It isn't:

mtn add dir/dir2/dir3/foo.file -> adds file + dirs
mtn commit dir/dir2/dir3/foo.file -> errors out

To make it logical either 'mtn add' needs to stop recursing, or 'mtn
commit' needs to the include subdirs. Can you think of a valid use-case
where I'd want to add the file but not the dirs?

regards,

Koen
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