Re: [Monotone-devel] Directory already exists?

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:20 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "J" == J Decker <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     J> *warning cannot create path box2d, already exists* well of
>     J> course it does, I just got through a partial update!
> 
> By "partial update" I assume you mean monotone half completed the
> update and left the working directory in a inconsistent state as a
> result.
> 
> Updates should be atomic. Either it fully works or doesn't work at
> all.

That's not possible until we get transactional filesystems.

> If the update isn't atomic, maybe that is the bug you need to chase.

We can't make it atomic.

We can probably make it recoverable/restartable, just keep track of what
we still had left to do.

We *might* be able to make it take a switch to just stomp on things it
doesn't understand, but that gets to be pretty similar to just removing
and recreating your workspace.

> What version of monotone is this?

All versions.

-- 
Timothy

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