Re: [Monotone-devel] Confusing output on 'mtn revert' after an attribute was dropped

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> If I remove the mtn:execute flag on a file, on an unrelated "mtn revert"
> I still get "mtn: reverting mtn:execute" outputs. The file permissions
> are set correctly, but the output is confusing, I think. Once a "mtn
> attr drop" was done on an attribute I would have expected that "mtn
> revert" no longer tells me about it.
>
> Here is a simple test which shows the confusing output:
> [...]
> mtn: reverting mtn:execute on foo.txt
> $ mtn attr get foo.txt mtn:execute
> No attribute 'mtn:execute' on path 'foo.txt'
> $ mtn revert foo.txt
> mtn: reverting mtn:execute on foo.txt
> [...]
>
> It is just a bug in the output or do I miss something here?

This is with Monotone 0.43, BTW. And, sorry, I see in my mail backlog
that this seems to be already reported under subject "0.43's revert is
noisy: 'mtn: reverting mtn:execute on ...'", too. Seems like exactly the
same problem.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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