Re: [Monotone-devel] workspace merge status update

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:50:02PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Much appreciated.  That looks quite nice.  (I had no idea you could
> get() an entire directory tree, or I wouldn't have bothered with that
> "gettree" thing.)

Oh, well, I didn't either, but I figured if it didn't work I would
just fix get(), but then it worked :-).

> One thing doesn't make sense -- there is commentary
> on the need to fix up the absolute paths in _MTN/options of the saved
> workspaces, and there are indeed absolute paths in those files that
> don't exist on my computer, but I see no code to fix up the paths ...
> and yet the test succeeds on my computer.  How is this possible?

Ah, that could use some commenting... if you look carefully at the
checks its doing, it doesn't compare the two options files
byte-for-byte, it has some hardcoded regexes it scans for, with
artfully placed .*'s.

> Also, must we have the 140-column separator lines? :-)

Nope!  Feel free to fix whatever...

-- Nathaniel

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