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bug#6513: vc-mtn broken with monotone 0.48 (can't even open files)
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#6513: vc-mtn broken with monotone 0.48 (can't even open files) |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:34:17 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Julio Merino <jmmv84@gmail.com> writes:
> The vc-mtn emacs module in emacs 23.2.1 does not work with monotone
> 0.48. This prevents editing *any* file tracked by monotone. Whenever
> I attempt to open a file that is tracked by monotone, emacs spits out
> the following in the minibuffer and fails to open the file:
>
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> The problem is most likely related to some user interface changes that
> happened in monotone 0.48: some commands such as 'mtn status' have
> changed their output and thus the regular expressions bundled in
> vc-mtn do not yield the correct matches.
Yep, the regexp used by vc-mtn-workfile-branch no longer matches the
mtn status output.
> The fix is to stop using random mtn commands in vc-mtn and change the
> code to *only* use subcommands of 'mtn automate'. 'automate' is The
> interface to interact with monotone from other applications, because
> it exposes a stable interface with well-defined intput/output
> semantics.