Re: [Monotone-devel] Tailor

[rghetta]

Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anybody here familiar with tailor?
Running tailor with the -D (debug) and -v (verbose) options might be 
useful to diagnose the problem.  With -D you should get all monotone 
output, including error messages.

> I suspect what is happening here is the input repository:
> * renamed a file statistics to statistics/squid
> * created a new directory called statistics
Can you create a file and a directory with the same name ? I suppose the 
real sequence was something like
 * rename statistics to temp
 * create a new directory statistics
 * rename temp to statistics\squid
Baz (or the baz backend on tailor) apparently collapses these three 
operations into one, yielding an invalid changeset.

> However, monotone is getting confused because tailor has called
> monotone commands in the wrong order, and it still thinks statistics
> should be a file, not a directory.
Tailor always executes renames before additions.
IHMO the source repository is corrupt or the backend outputs impossibile 
operations (renaming statistics to statistics/squid makes no sense).
Note that all renames involving statistics fail, suggesting a problem 
with this directory.

> I can't even see a call to add "statistics" as a dir. Curious.
Directory addition in Tailor adds only the directory itself, without 
files.  Directory addition in Monotone is recursive, and adds also 
contained files and directories. Due to Tailor internals, this 
difference can interfere with renames, so the monotone backend strips 
away directory additions (note that adding a/b adds automagically the 
directory a).