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Re: [Monotone-devel] Anatomy of user stupidness
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Brian May |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Anatomy of user stupidness |
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Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:52:20 +1100 |
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:
Thomas> This made monotone.mtn the default database for my current
Thomas> workspace which based on a different database
Thomas> (guitone.mtn), and since the other database didn't contain
Thomas> any of the revisions of the original ones, things started
Thomas> to get messy (I separated certain branches project-wise
Thomas> into several databases).
Thomas> I still couldn't track down the original problem (missing
Thomas> libs/ dir, obviously there where no files in --missing and
Thomas> no changes in the revision), but the other problem _may_
Thomas> have been easier to be tracked down if monotone would have
Thomas> told me something like
Thomas> Warning: changing default database of workspace to
Thomas> 'monotone.mtn'
Better errors when the expected revision cannot be found would also be
a plus, I think.
It looks like, at times, monotone tried to guess what was wrong, but
guessed wrongly.
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Brian May <address@hidden>