[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn add weirdness

[Bruce Stephens]

"Justin Patrin" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> 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.

Indeed.  And at a more general level, I'd justify that by saying that
users probably regard the things passed to add differently to the the
things passed to commit or diff---things passed to add are directory
names and file names, not "restrictions", so it's fine if they behave
differently.