Re: [Monotone-devel] Repeatable 'monotone serve' crash

[Thomas Moschny]

On Friday 05 January 2007 21:40, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> gdb tells me that the destination file is da39... , ie, the empty file.

Yeah, that's exactly what I found out by looking at Ethan's database and the 
file_deltas therein.

> IIRC an xdelta consists of copy+insert instructions; to delete
> everything you leave the xdelta empty.
>
> An empty xdelta is not the same as an xdelta that does nothing. The
> invariant is based on a wrong assumption, and should be removed.

Or changed as to also check whether destination is empty.

- Thomas M.