Fw: [Monotone-devel] monotone log data issue

[David Hoke]

(Forwarding to list for completeness, as I incorrectly replied only to NS.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hoke" <address@hidden>
To: "Nathaniel Smith" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone log data issue


> main point:
> Sorry.  My oversight.  I overlooked the columnization, and did not see 
> both files listed.
>
> rambling:
> I think I initially missed that somewhere else too.
>
> Might be nice if 1)such filename output lists were consistent with all 
> commands producing them, or 2)the columns or filenames were somehow 
> emphasized a bit more with multiple columns, or always restricted to one 
> column.
> ("monotone known" apparently does only one column, but "log" output may do 
> more than one column?)
> (Maybe precede each item with a '>' or '*' if that doesn't affect the 
> scripted mode output.  Single spaces are easily overlooked, especially if 
> one works with paths that have spaces in them. [I do try to avoid that, 
> but sometimes have to work with others.])
> (Another possibility might be to twist things around to emphasize 
> filenames with paths secondarily, possibly like "<filename>(<path>)" or 
> "<filename>[<path>]".)
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nathaniel Smith" <address@hidden>
> To: "David Hoke" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone log data issue
>
>
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:33:53PM -0500, David Hoke wrote:
> > >    The following appears to correctly add files, but incorrectly log 
> > > exactly
> > >    what was done.  (I edited the original "junk*.txt" files, but the 
> > > echo's
> > >    should produce functional equivalents.  Also my specific identifying
> > >    information has been hand-edited.)
> >
> > Hrm, everything here looks fine to me... can you give more details on
> > what you expected to have happen, but didn't?
> >
> > > =======================================================================
> > >    >monotone add junk*
> > >    monotone: adding sub1/junk1.txt to working copy add set
> > >    monotone: adding sub1/junk2.txt to working copy add set
> > >    monotone: skipping ignorable file sub1/junk2.txt~
> >
> > monotone adds junk1.txt and junk2.txt, but not junk2.txt~, because
> > it knows its an editor backup file.
> >
> > >    >monotone log
> > >    -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >    Revision: c1e707676d24ae9bd93c95c6ca608aefb731feb1
> > >    Ancestor:
> > >    Author: address@hidden
> > >    Date: 2005-12-06T19:03:21
> > >    Branch: com.somedomain.basebranch
> > >
> > >    Added files:
> > >            sub1/junk1.txt sub1/junk2.txt
> >
> > log reports that junk1.txt and junk2.txt were added, but junk2.txt~
> > was not, just like monotone said above.
> >
> > >    >monotone list known
> > >    sub1/junk1.txt
> > >    sub1/junk2.txt
> >
> > And since they've been added, they're now known.
> >
> > -- Nathaniel
> >
> > --
> > Sentience can be such a burden.