[Monotone-devel] monotone: misuse: partial id error

[Tom Faska]

I have been looking at various version control systems and like the 
approach taken with monotone and decided to give it a try. 

I installed the monotone_0.11-1_i386.deb package and had a problem which 
I could not find in the list archives.  As a simple test I copied and 
pasted the examples directly from the monotone documentation with the 
results shown below.  I have tried this on two different systems and 
keep getting the error "monotone: misuse: partial id '2843' does not 
have a unique expansion" when attempting to use the "monotone list certs 
manifest" command.  When I use the fill cert id I then get no output 
whatsoever.

It is not shown below but to get by the "monotone: misuse: no default 
author name for branch 'testbranch'" error I added the following to 
$HOME/.monotonerc:

   function get_author(branchname)
       return "address@hidden"
   end

I suspect that this is a simple "user" error but could not find it in 
the documentation. Any help will be appreciated.

TIA,

Tom

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address@hidden:~$ monotone db init --db=$HOME/test.db

address@hidden:~$ monotone --db=$HOME/test.db genkey address@hidden
monotone: generating key-pair 'address@hidden'
enter passphrase for key ID address@hidden :
monotone: storing key-pair 'address@hidden' in database

address@hidden:~$ monotone --db=$HOME/test.db list keys

[public keys]
fb884c020c11e03d66a5ba68b751f8da697f6a3e address@hidden


[private keys]
dfb5ec8c85d0d2da5c1b5cc1e4ba6a932d654ac7 address@hidden

address@hidden:~$ monotone --branch=testbranch --db=$HOME/test.db add dyndns.py
monotone: adding dyndns.py to working copy add set

address@hidden:~$ cat MT/work
add
dyndns.py

address@hidden:~$ monotone commit 'initial addition of files'
monotone: committing 0b8f094f42b743a1e2d9481632e2d845cd3fa761
monotone: committing to branch testbranch
enter passphrase for key ID address@hidden :
monotone: [bytes: 1221] [packets: 4]
monotone: committed 0b8f094f42b743a1e2d9481632e2d845cd3fa761

address@hidden:~$ cat MT/manifest
284385b12c29e08f272423703e114737a314065a  dyndns.py

address@hidden:~$ monotone list certs manifest 2843
monotone: misuse: partial id '2843' does not have a unique expansion

**** error return code 1
**********  errors detected; see standard output for details  ***********

address@hidden:~$ monotone list certs manifest 
284385b12c29e08f272423703e114737a314065a
address@hidden:~$