Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug report: monotone add command fails on Windows

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:41:04AM -0700, Roger House wrote:
> monotone: searching for 'MT' directory with root '/'
> monotone: 'MT' not found in 'C:/OPENSO~1/Monotone/LEARN/WORKCOPY/MT' 
> with '' removed
> monotone: search for 'MT' ended at 'C:/OPENSO~1/Monotone/LEARN/WORKCOPY' 
> with 'MT' removed
> monotone: paths.cc:209: invariant 'I(is_valid_internal(data()))' violated

Ah, it looks like you're trying to add files that are in the
workcopy\MT directory.

The solution is "don't do that" :-).  The MT/ directory is reserved
for monotone's internal bookkeeping stuff; your files go in the plain
old workcopy\ directory.

The bug is that we forgot to put a high-level check for this in, so
it's only the low-level integrity checks that noticed, and they don't
give very good error messages.  I'll fix that.

> At the moment it seems that I can't do much with monotone on Windows.  I 
> eagerly await some
> resolution of this problem so I can get going.  From the documentation, 
> it looks like monotone
> is just the version control system that I am looking for.

Hope it works well for you.  Let us know if you have any more
thoughts/wishes/problems...

-- Nathaniel

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