Re: [Monotone-devel] BUG: Windows version doing an anonymous pull

[Stephen Leake]

Phil Hannent <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
>> I don't believe there is a monotone that comes "with MinGW".
> Indeed, I meant the cygwin which was clearly apparent to you from my
> version. Sorry for the confusion.
>
>> type -a mtn
> $ type -a mtn
> mtn is /usr/bin/mtn
> mtn is /bin/mtn
> mtn is /cygdrive/k/Program Files/monotone/mtn
> mtn is /cygdrive/d/Program Files/monotone/mtn
> mtn is /cygdrive/k/Program Files/monotone/mtn
> mtn is /usr/bin/mtn
>

This is definitely going to cause confusion, if not other problems. 

I suggest you maintain a simpler PATH variable, and change it for
particular applications.

>> As Timothy pointed out, the MinGW and Cygwin mtn's look for monotonerc
>> and the keys directory in different places
> Indeed, however my use case is that I have a project which I am
> working on for my employer and I use the Windows version for (which
> works great) and the cygwin version which I use for working on Pidgin
> builds.  

THis is an excellent case for using different PATH settings for the
two different projects.

> While I was aware of the two different locations I can confirm that
> they contain the same information as I started my work project using
> the cygwin version (with the keys from there) and changed to the MinGW
> version.
>
> The monotonerc file in both locations just contains the get_passphrase
> function. The keys folder contains 2 keys.

When you have 2 keys, mtn doesn't know which one to use, so it is
almost as bad as having no keys. You need to specify which one to use,
using --key. I believe that is cached in the workspace _MTN/options.

Although that should be the same between Cygwin and MinGW versions.

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-- Stephe