[Monotone-devel] monotone bug

[Faré]

Dear monotone developers,

thanks a lot for monotone. It is not yet perfect, but it's already very useful.

Using monotone, I hit a bug whereby monotone was consistently crashing
with the error reproduced below whenever I would try to manipulate my
working set, that I traced down to my having used "monotone add ."
which had added an entry 'file "."' in my .mt-attrs. Monotone should
check for errors instead of die, when it faces such things.

Feature requests:
* would it be possible to keep private keys in ~/.monotone instead of
the database? That would make it easier to make a database publicly
available (read-only) via viewmtn or netsync.
* Currently, I use netsync over ssh port redirection. It works but
it's unwieldy. I see there is a branch with ssh support. What prevents
it from being merged into the main branch?
* Before I decided to use monotone, I had many ideas for building a
similar system that would use a monotonic base of facts at its core.
But I also had other ideas on top, that you might or might not be
interested in hearing (using epistemic logic for SNAIL
synchronization, using re-signing to allow renaming branches or
working around data that shouldn't be here, using relevance logic to
garbage-collect facts, etc.)
    http://fare.tunes.org/computing/term-project-proposal.html

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind!
        -- Bertrand Russell's Grand Mother, In Karl Popper, The Unended Quest

# monotone something
...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'informative_failure'
monotone: fatal: signal: SIGABRT (application abort requested)
monotone: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
monotone: please send this error message, the output of 'monotone
--full-version',
monotone: and a description of what you were doing to address@hidden
monotone: wrote debugging log to MT/debug

# tail -n 3 MT/debug
work path is MT/work
attribute map path is .mt-attrs
unix/process.cc:61: usage constraint 'N(fd != -1)' violated

# monotone --full-version
monotone 0.22 (base revision: 28058ae3e850229a5d8fae65415cbbf82b435377)
Running on: Linux 2.6.11 #1 Fri Jun 3 20:04:47 EDT 2005 i686
Changes since base revision:

new_manifest [10362ee0d4a3dc70c67ab38ec21db76d3d231320]

old_revision [28058ae3e850229a5d8fae65415cbbf82b435377]
old_manifest [10362ee0d4a3dc70c67ab38ec21db76d3d231320]


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