Re: [Monotone-devel] Rename failed

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:18:45AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:18:26 -0700, Nathaniel 
> Smith <address@hidden> said:
> 
> njs> All that's wrong here is that monotone update .mt-attrs when you
> njs> said "rename", but it didn't actually rename the files for you --
> njs> we know this is annoying :-) -- so until you rename the files
> njs> yourself, you'll have a attribute that points at a non-existent
> njs> file, which will make monotone unhappy.
> 
> Hmm, wouldn't a flag --exec or --doit that tells monotone to move (or
> in the case of "drop", delete) the file be a good thing?
> 
> I'm willing to implement.

Please do :-).

-- Nathaniel

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