Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug in monotone automate inventory

[Emile Snyder]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:41 +0100, Ian France wrote:
> Hi Nathaniel,
> 
>    I took a moment out of java programming to add some logging 
> statements to the monotone code and discovered the problem. I had 
> somehow managed to create a file with the name '^G' i.e. 0x07. Monotone 
> was rejecting this (quite reasonably) as an illegal filename.

If you created it then it is, demonstrably, not an illegal filename ;)

>    Sorry to have bothered you with this triviality and thank you for 
> your swift response.

No, this is clearly a bug in monotone.  You created a legal file on your
system in the working copy, and monotone choked and died.  Thanks for
digging and figuring it out,

-emile

> Ian.
> 
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:33:12AM +0100, Ian France wrote:
> > 
> >>>monotone automate inventory
> >>
> >>monotone: fatal: std::logic_error: paths.cc:209: invariant 
> >>'I(is_valid_internal(data()))' violated
> > 
> > 
> > Are you, by chance, running 'automate inventory' from inside the MT/
> > directory of a working copy?  There was a bug in 0.23 (fixed in
> > mainline) that would cause many operations to fail if monotone's
> > initial working directory was an MT/ directory.
> > 
> > If not, would it be possible to send the output of running the
> > offending command with --debug?
> > 
> > -- Nathaniel
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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