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Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates


From: Nathaniel Smith
Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:49:07 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:47:01PM -0300, Alex Queiroz wrote:
>     Lua itself uses only ANSI C functions. The execute() call is a
> function exported to Lua from the monotone code. Currently there is no
> binding for a chdir function, although it'd be easy to add.

No!  Monotone's whole code base assumes that its working directory is
the root of the workspace; lua hooks don't get to violate basic
process-wide invariants like that.

The use case makes sense, but there really needs to be another way to
do it.

-- Nathaniel

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