Fwd: [Monotone-devel] Directory already exists?

[J Decker]

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From: J Decker <address@hidden>
Date: Dec 18, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] Directory already exists?
To: William Uther <address@hidden>


Just so y'all know... (this reply is basically out of sequence)

the best way to update when this condition exists...
get the head revision, update _MTN/revision and mtn revert

revert has 0 problems updating *boggle*


On Dec 18, 2007 10:50 AM, William Uther

<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 18/12/2007, at 12:58 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:15:11PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>>> if a directory already exists, so what?  presume it was already
> >>>> added by a incomplete update and continue....
> >>
> >>    Timothy> We currently think of directories as objects, so stomping
> >>    Timothy> on an existing directory is just as bad as stomping on an
> >>    Timothy> existing file.
> >>
> >> I consider this a good thing. If I manually created a directory and
> >> it
> >> conflicts with an update, chances are I didn't realize that the
> >> directory name was already in use. I don't want monotone to assume
> >> that the purpose of the new directory is compatible with the
> >> directory
> >> in the repository, as this may not be the case.
> >
> > Well, trashing the workspace is never a good thing, no matter how
> > noble the intentions :-).
> >
> > Could we just handle this case by issuing a warning and continuing
> > anyway?  Seriously, it would be like 3 lines of code and definitively
> > better than what we have now...
>
> Just a thought on the atomic workspace thing...
>
> If monotone took a diff before attempting an update, then if something
> went wrong you could always reconstruct the state before the update.
>
> In fact, isn't there a system out there that requires all changes be
> committed before an update, at least onto an anonymous branch?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will       :-}
>
>
>
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