[Monotone-devel] Issue 112 - mtn au checkout cwdir issue (monotone)

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112 - mtn au checkout cwdir issue
Project: monotone
Status: New
Reported by: Tony Cooper
Labels:
 Type:Incorrect Behavior
 Component:Automation Interface
 Priority:Low

Description:

Just been testing the Monotone:AutomateStdio Perl library against 0.99.1.

   As a part of the testing I tried using the new the au checkout command. 
During the entire test (which exercises all of the au stdio interface) the mtn 
subprocess is not terminated (so the same instance is used to test all 
commands) and the same dedicated test workspace is used (which is reset after 
each test run).

   The checkout test was basically run inside this test workspace and the 
equivalent of `au checkout --branch net.venge.monotone ../MTN-TESTER-WS' is 
done (i.e. it is checked out at the same level as the current test workspace 
and not inside it). When that test has finished the ../MTN-TESTER-WS directory 
is removed. From then on in every command fails with a `I need a workspace' 
error. If however, I restart the mtn subprocess directly after this test then 
everything works as expected.

   The au checkout command seems to change the mtn subprocess's notion of what 
workspace it is using for the rest of the session, in effect doing a chdir().

   I can understand why it needs to temporarily switch workspaces, but 
shouldn't it switch back again afterwards?

   MTIA Tony.

Output of `mtn version --full`:
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monotone 0.99.1 (base revision: 8973482283db7c36780dce2b54721ccc0f5b7388)
Running on          : Linux 2.6.9-34.EL #1 Sun Mar 19 13:34:16 CST 2006 i686
C++ compiler        : GNU C++ version 4.3.2
C++ standard library: GNU libstdc++ version 20080905
Boost version       : 1_40
SQLite version      : 3.5.9 (compiled against 3.5.9)
Lua version         : Lua 5.1
PCRE version        : 7.6 2008-01-28 (compiled against 7.6)
Botan version       : 1.8.9 (compiled against 1.8.9)
Changes since base revision:
format_version "1"

new_manifest [c1270158b7fa91abf8235ad129b0476943bde1ed]

old_revision [8973482283db7c36780dce2b54721ccc0f5b7388]

  Generated from data cached in the distribution;
  further changes may have been made.

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Issue: http://code.monotone.ca/p/monotone/issues/112/