[Monotone-devel] Re: cannot drop non-empty directory during branch update

[J Decker]

Oh - yeah then it becomes a missing directory if I take the easy way
out, and just rename the path...

On 9/18/07, J Decker <address@hidden> wrote:
> I really really don't want to delete these files, I will very soon be
> back to work in this space...
>
> On 9/18/07, J Decker <address@hidden> wrote:
> > mtn.EXE: switching to branch com.fortunet.altanik
> > mtn.EXE: warning: cannot drop non-empty directory
> > 'src/fut/flashdrive/flashdrivetester'
> > mtn.EXE: misuse: 1 workspace conflicts
> >
> >
> > this is caused by creating a project with sources and building it,
> > which created objects and sub-directories in the path; then update to
> > a revision previous to the addition of that directory....
> >
> > If a thing is not empty, it issues a warning, but then fails to
> > actually update.
> >
> >
> > (screams and runs around waving hands wildly) This is about the 6th
> > time this week I've run into this as I've been bouncing between the
> > versions...
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Let me guess, monotone was never intended to work like this, so it's a
> > non issue.
> >
>