adding directories (was Re: [Monotone-devel] listing unknown directories)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:55:28AM -0800, Rob Schoening wrote:
>    Incidentally, the 0.31 change where mtn add is non-recursive by default is
>    much welcomed.  This was causing me to have to undo a lot of "mtn add"
>    operations by editing the files in _MTN.  For anyone that is interested,
>    the situation usually went like this:
> 
>    You have the following directory structure:
> 
>    a/
>    a/b
>    a/c
> 
>    And then create a directory x, which is a sibling of a:
> 
>    x/
> 
>    And then move b and c into x
> 
>    x/b
>    x/c
> 
>    And then want to commit.  Monotne would tell me "x is unknown" so then I
>    would add x, only to realize moments later that it had added b and c, when
>    what I really wanted it to do was add x and *move* b and c.

FWIW, with both 0.30 and 0.31 you should just be able to say "mtn
rename a/b x/b" and have monotone automatically notice that "x" is
unversioned and add it non-recursively.

-- Nathaniel

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