[Monotone-devel] Re: "mtn: error/misuse: detected at ..."

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> mtn: misuse: detected at ../S-vanilla/database.cc:3,855
>> mtn: misuse: no database specified
>>
>> (I assume this came in with the error-handling branch.)  IMO this is
>> not a desirable change.  It adds a line of text that you have to read
>> past to get to the important part of the error message;  this text
>> will not be meaningful to most users, and in any event is unlikely to
>> be useful most of the time.
>
> We do want that available somewhere though, especially for cases where
> the error turns out to be the kind that gives the "almost certainly a
> bug" message... I guess making it always log it (instead of only with
> --debug) would work just as well.

Always log, sure; also, can we postpone printing it until we know
whether the error is the "almost certainly a bug" type?  Or even just
printing it *below* the actual error message would be a great
improvement.

zw