[Monotone-devel] Re: Cannot compile recent head 2645f7a4

[Bruce Stephens]

Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> writes:

> "B. J. Girard" <address@hidden> writes:

>> After following the instructions at
>>      http://www.venge.net/monotone/self-hosting.html
>> I typed:
>>      monotone --db=~/etc/monotone/monotone.db
>>      --branch=net.venge.monotone  checkout head monotone-src
>>
>> It gave me:
>> monotone: expanding selection 'head'
>> monotone: expanded to '2645f7a4b96489ad0d10a94d83da4420d86592c3'
>>
>> I would expect this to check out the head of branch "net.venge.monotone".

(The combination of --branch=net.venge.monotone and the selector head
appears to expand the same as the selector
b:net.venge.monotone/b:head, and in this case that's unique.)

In case it's not obvious, this behaviour seem very unlucky: almost
always monotone prints out an error when you make an error.  You've
just been unlucky.

Also, the behaviour of not treating the --branch argument more
literally seems wrong to me.  If I want a selector
b:net.venge.monotone, then I think I ought to be able to just say that
(and anywhere where I can't currently do that, maybe there should be
another standard option --selector=).