Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: mtn add weirdness

[Justin Patrin]

On 8/7/06, Koen Kooi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Johan Bolmsjö schreef:
>
> > Can't just "mtn add" check that parent directories to a file are versioned and
> > if they are not simply add them too?
>
> And 'mtn commit' do the same? Suppose I want to do this:
>
> mkdir foo/bar/ -p
> touch foo/file1 foo/bar/file2 foo/bar/file3
> mtn add foo/file1 foo/bar/bar/file2 foo/bar/file3
> mtn commit foo/bar/file3
>
> right now I can't do that, because commit will complain about the
> directories. But if I commit foo/bar, file2 will get committed as well,
> which is not what I want. I can work around all this by splitting up the
> commands and doing a commit after that, but frankly I don't want to.

This is a good point. Directories are being treated the same way as
files, e.g. you have to specify them when using restrictions in order
to commit them. But if you specify a directory everything inside of it
also gets selected. I'm not saying this shouldn't happen, just that
directories are different than files and that it's a reason *for*
auto-comitting parent directories when comitting a file.

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Justin Patrin