Re: [Monotone-devel] error report

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:10:36AM -0500, Jim Peters wrote:
> I receieved this error after deleting a directory, and then realizing I 
> had to do a find dir | xargs mono drop on the files first.  After deleting 
> the directory and then attempting a monotone drop dir/file I receieved 
> this message.  Creating the directory again did not change the message. 
> This directory is a sub-directory of my main tree.

This is a long-standing bug -- directory deletion doesn't really work.
To get your working copy back to a consistent state, run "monotone
revert"; then "monotone drop" all the files in the directory, but not
the directory itself.  Because we don't currently version directories
per se, this will implicitly remove the directory.

I.e.:
 $ monotone revert
 $ find dir -type f | xargs monotone drop
            ^^^^^^^ very important

More modern versions of monotone will just refuse to let you drop a
directory, with an apologetic error message.

We're working on revamping directory support to finish fixing all
these remaining changeset bugs, but for now you want the workaround
above.

-- Nathaniel

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