Re: [Monotone-devel] Problems with _MTN/tmp

[Ian France]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:18:38AM +0100, Ian France wrote:
>
> > I am all for monotone not losing my files. However, backup files which 
> > monotone knows to ignore shouldn't cause an update to fail. They are, 
> > after all, quite common things to have in a workspace :-)
>
>
> While nothing should cause an update to _fail_ like it does now, I
> don't really think we should be defaulting to just silently deleting
> random stuff either :-).

Granted, but my argument would be that backup files are not random 
stuff. They are known to monotone to be ignorable, monotone should 
follow through and ignore them. If I am careless enough to put files 
which I need to keep in a version controlled directory and tell monotone 
to ignore them, then I have only myself to blame.

The alternative is that when I want to update my workspace to another 
branch I have to go and explicitly delete all the backup files that have 
been created. This could be a right royal pain in the *** on a big project.

Hmm, I don't envy the balancing act you poor developers have to play 
between different users expectations. Good luck :-)

Ian.