Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory questions

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:42 -0500, Hugo Cornelis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am building a small script to automate the release management of one
> of my projects.  To see if the current workspace has uncommitted
> differences, I use the 'automate inventory' command, and parse the
> output in the script.
> 
> According to the docs, I can get the following outcomes :
> 
>             M 0 0 missing
>            AP 0 0 added
>           D   0 0 dropped
>           R   1 0 renamed-from-this
>            R  0 1 renamed-to-this
>             P 0 0 patched
>               0 0 unchanged
>             U 0 0 unknown
>             I 0 0 ignored
> 
> Yet, I see in the output the following entries :
> 
> ' A  0 0 docs/'
> ' A  0 0 docs/HOWTO.outline'
> ' AP 0 0 build-dist'
> 
> I can understand the first entry as it is a directory, could that be
> documented ?  The second entry and third entry are both non-empty
> files that have been added, but the output seems contradictory, as one
> has a 'P', the other hasn't.  Is there a rationale for this output ?
> What is the correct output for an empty added file ?

It is a bug which *should* have been fixed by now, but apparently
hasn't.

Tim
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