Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone commit without --message causes a problem.

[Phil de Joux]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:07:28 -0500, Timothy Brownawell  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> On 4/24/05, Jared Williams <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >         Seems a commit without a message caused a problem. Doing a  
> > simple minor commit..
> >
> > >monotone commit
> > monotone: beginning commit on branch 'store'
> > monotone: fatal: std::exception: boost::filesystem::path: invalid name  
> > "/mt.2A2N9L" in path: "F:\Temp\/mt.2A2N9L"
>
> I think the default temp_file function is broken on Windows. Does
> putting the following in monotonerc help?:
>
> function temp_file()
>    local tdir
>    tdir = os.getenv("TMPDIR")
>    if tdir == nil then tdir = os.getenv("TMP") end
>    if tdir == nil then tdir = os.getenv("TEMP") end
>    if tdir == nil then tdir = "/tmp" end
>    return mkstemp(string.format("%s\mt.XXXXXX", tdir))
> end
>
> The default version uses a / in the last line, which apparently
> doesn't (always) get handled properly on Windows.

There are more native alternatives, .NET has the Path.GetTempFileName  
method while the Win32 API has the GetTempFileName function.

Phil

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