Re: [Monotone-devel] Error handling via automate

[Jon Bright]

Thomas Keller wrote:
> This, however, doesn't solve at all the problem how a client application
> should be able to "weight" the fatalness of an error. 

Right.  Being that the current error handling doesn't have any knowledge 
about "fatalness", though, I'd suggest:

1. Make errors exit from automate stdio
2. Provide a way to mark errors as "don't need restart"
3. Mark non-fatal errors as "don't need restart" as and when they're 
discovered and manually examined to make sure that that's true.

This seems like the kind of strategy likely to end up with reasonably 
robust, conservative error-handling which nonetheless doesn't require 
too many stdio restarts.  Granted, it might take a little bit longer to 
get to that point.

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