[Monotone-devel] Re: Cannot compile recent head 2645f7a4

[Bruce Stephens]

"B. J. Girard" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> After following the instructions at
>      http://www.venge.net/monotone/self-hosting.html
> I typed:
>      monotone --db=~/etc/monotone/monotone.db
> --branch=net.venge.monotone  checkout head monotone-src
>
> It gave me:
> monotone: expanding selection 'head'
> monotone: expanded to '2645f7a4b96489ad0d10a94d83da4420d86592c3'

There's a strong hint in the messages: monotone is saying that it's
regarding 'head' as a selection (selector), and expanding it.  

It should probably expand that a bit, to show that it's treating it as
a branch selector, and show which branch it expanded to.  It does do
this kind of thing sometimes, but it might be useful to be more
verbose always.  For example

monotone list certs jmmv/2004-12-19/i:3b

currently says

monotone: expanded selector '2004-12-19' -> 'd:2004-12-19'
monotone: expanding selection 'jmmv/2004-12-19/i:3b'
monotone: expanded to '3b791e6c2523766e9973cbfcd6a7748907fd74dc'

It could say

monotone: expanded selector '2004-12-19' -> 'd:2004-12-19'
monotone: expanding selection 'jmmv/2004-12-19/i:3b'
monotone: expanded to '3b791e6c2523766e9973cbfcd6a7748907fd74dc'
monotone: selectors matched a:address@hidden/d:2004-12-19T10:48:11

or something.  Similarly for branches.