[Monotone-devel] Re: monotone.el: menu and scoping...

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:16:33PM -0700, Harley Gorrell wrote:
>    I tried monotone.el on emacs 22.0.50 and didnt have any
> errors with the menu.  I am wondering if there is something
> up with your version.  Could you try some other version and
> see if it happens again?
> 
>    While working on the "scoping" issue I found something
> which was odd. This is what I did:
> 
> cd $MONOTONE_SRC                   # wherever
> monotone log --depth=10            # output as expected (1)
> monotone log --depth=10 .          # no output          (2)
> monotone log --depth=10 contrib/.  # no output          (3)
>  monotone log --depth=10 contrib/monotone.el # output   (4)
> cd contrib
> monotone log --depth=10             # same as "1"  (5)
> monotone log --depth=10 .           # no output    (6)
> monotone log --depth=10 monotone.el # none         (7)
> 
>    I would expect the ouput from 1,2 & 5 to be the same and
> that of 3 & 6 to be the same. It would be nice if 7 had the
> same output as 4.
> 
>    The case of 3 & 7 is really irksome.

Err, yeah; "log" has really lame restrictions support at the moment.
(Basically, it never got switched to the new restrictions code.)  It
should use --revision to get the revision to use, and it should take
an arbitrary restriction set on the command line.  But it doesn't.
CC'ed to monotone-devel in case anyone is interested in a project...

-- Nathaniel

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