Re: [Monotone-devel] Unexpected Behavior

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:39:43PM -0700, Rob Schoening wrote:
>    When I was setting up ViewMTN last week (thanks to the helpful posts with
>    revisions/patches needed to work with 0.29)  I noticed something
>    unexpected.
> 
>    When I ran "mtn update -r" to switch my workspace to a particular
>    revision, it seemed to be sourcing one of the project files (mtn.py) and
>    then complained about the syntax of the file which prevented the update
>    operation from completing.  It was as if " mtn.py" was being loaded as
>    some kind of hook.
> 
>    It was easy enough to work around by descending into a sub-directory and
>    run "mtn update -r" from there since mtn.py was not present.
> 
>    Does anyone know if this is a feature or a bug?

If monotone is reading a file 'mtn.py' out of the current working
directory and trying to execute it, then that is definitely a bug, but
it seems like a... really unlikely one.

Need more details to tell what's going on.  Possibly you're on a
system that searches the current directory for executables, and
searches for executables with extra extensions appended?  (E.g., I
think you can tell windows to treat foo.py files like foo.exe files,
i.e., both executable by running "foo".)

-- Nathaniel

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