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Re: [Monotone-devel] clone cleanup failure on Windows
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] clone cleanup failure on Windows |
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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:58:11 -0800 |
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:58:51AM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> When clone is not supplied a --db argument it creates a new db in
> _MTN/mtn.db in the new workspace. If the clone command fails for
> some reason (e.g. we try to clone a revision that doesn't exist in
> the branch we specified) the we usually will not know this until the
> new workspace has been created, the new db created in it, the branch
> pulled from the remote server, and the rest of the checkout started.
[...]
> Possible solutions:
>
> i) Don't clean up (let the user clean up). This is at least saves
> the database they've just pulled, although it is in a place they're
> unlikely to find it by themselves.
>
> ii) Don't clean up on windows.
>
> iii) Someone fixes the problem on Windows. Unfortunately, I'm not
> sure I can do this. I don't have access to a windows build
> environment, and debugging by build-bot is, well, inefficient.
iv) Don't put the db file into _MTN? It's kind of a funny place for
it, seems to be causing trouble, and I worry it's going to totally
bite someone on the butt when they (spread out over some months) do:
$ mtn clone venge.net 'net.venge.monotone*' -b net.venge.monotone src
$ cd src
src$ mtn co -r h:net.venge.monotone.foo ../foo
src$ cd ..
$ rm -rf src # don't need this checkout anymore
$ cd foo
foo$ mtn diff # errors out, missing database
Worth considering, anyway...
-- Nathaniel
--
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways.
- [Monotone-devel] clone cleanup failure on Windows, William Uther, 2007/03/01
- Re: [Monotone-devel] clone cleanup failure on Windows,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/02
- [Monotone-devel] Re: where to put a (default) database?, Bruce Stephens, 2007/03/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Jack Lloyd, 2007/03/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Hugo Cornelis, 2007/03/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Chad Walstrom, 2007/03/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Nathaniel Smith, 2007/03/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows], Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/02