Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: broken UI for mtn commit

[Justin Patrin]

On 8/1/07, Lapo Luchini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
> > address@hidden:~/packages/raw-tools$ mtn commit exiv2_0.15.bb
> > mtn: warning: restriction excludes addition of 'packages/raw-tools' but 
> > includes addition
> > of 'packages/raw-tools/exiv2_0.15.bb'
> >
> > Can someone *please* explain why this still hasn't been fixed the past 6 
> > releases or so?
>
> UH?
>
> Works for me...
>
> % mkdir -p d3/d2/d1
> % touch d3/d2/d1/f1
> % touch d3/d2/d1/f2
> % cd d3/d2/d1
> % LANG=C mtn add f1
> mtn: adding d3 to workspace manifest
> mtn: adding d3/d2 to workspace manifest
> mtn: adding d3/d2/d1 to workspace manifest
> mtn: adding d3/d2/d1/f1 to workspace manifest
> % LANG=C mtn st
> Current branch: it.lapo.homedir.cyberone
> Changes against parent 7d97012d972f7474741937e0ee0390a4cd44f3a5
>   added    d3
>   added    d3/d2
>   added    d3/d2/d1
>   added    d3/d2/d1/f1
> % LANG=C mtn ci --depth 0 ../.. .. . f1

Koen's point is that you shouldn't have to add "--depth 0 ../.. .. ."
to this command-line. Asking to commit f1 implicitly asks to commit
the enclosing directories without comitting their contents.

-- 
Justin Patrin