Re: [Monotone-devel] workspace merge status update

[Zack Weinberg]

On 9/2/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:50:02PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > One thing doesn't make sense -- there is commentary
> > on the need to fix up the absolute paths in _MTN/options of the saved
> > workspaces, and there are indeed absolute paths in those files that
> > don't exist on my computer, but I see no code to fix up the paths ...
> > and yet the test succeeds on my computer.  How is this possible?
>
> Ah, that could use some commenting... if you look carefully at the
> checks its doing, it doesn't compare the two options files
> byte-for-byte, it has some hardcoded regexes it scans for, with
> artfully placed .*'s.

No, I mean, we go on to run monotone commands in the reconstituted
working directory, I don't see how that is managing to work.  (And it
seems to me it would be good to do a little more -- compare "automate
inventory" output, perhaps?)

zw