Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Server fails to start up because it messes with MT directory

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:29:53PM -0600, Derek Scherger wrote:
> Peter Simons wrote:
> > Timothy Brownawell writes:
> > 
> >  > It's trying to read MT/options.
> > 
> > I would be nice if there were a flag to tell Monotone to
> > _not_ read anything from the MT directory. Particularly,
> > when starting the Netsync server.
> 
> --root='.' should do limit the search for MT to the current directory,
> but that isn't quite what you want I guess.
> 
> Another alternative might be to adjust the non-working copy commands to
> never look for MT. At the moment, they all go looking but continue on if
> they don't find it. It might be a bit of a trick to do this timing-wise
> though, iirc the search for MT is done before the details of the command
> (i.e. whether it's a working dir command or not) have been determined.

This seems wrong, because "serve" etc. in a working copy _should_
automatically pick up the default database.  Right?

-- Nathaniel

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