[Monotone-devel] mtn rename question

[Tim Kettler]

Hi,

When doing a standard 'mtn rename ...' everything works as expected:

  address@hidden:~/Develop/testws$ mtn mkdir dir1
  mtn: adding dir1 to workspace manifest
  address@hidden:~/Develop/testws$ mtn rename dir1 renameddir1
  mtn: renaming dir1 to renameddir1 in workspace manifest

When I try to mimic this with a 'mv ... && mtn rename --bookkeep-only 
...' it's not working:

  address@hidden:~/Develop/testws$ mtn mkdir dir1
  mtn: adding dir1 to workspace manifest
  address@hidden:~/Develop/testws$ mv dir1 renameddir1
  address@hidden:~/Develop/testws$ mtn rename --bookkeep-only dir1 
renameddir1
  mtn: misuse: destination dir renameddir1/ is not versioned (perhaps 
add it?)

Notice the trailing slash in destdir. 'mtn rename --bookkeep-only ...' 
behaves exactly like the standard rename would when the destination 
directory exists, it tries to move the source directory to under the 
destination directory. This of course fails because 'renameddir1' is not 
versioned.

Shouldn't this automatism (appending the slash) be disabled and the 
rename just be recored in the manifest in the '--bookkeep-only ...' 
case? Or what other command should be used to sync the workspace with 
the filesystem in such a stituation.

I stumbled upon this while coding on a monotone plugin for Intellij 
IDEA, where I don't get notified about renames until after they happened 
in the filesystem.

Thanks
-Tim