Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review: initial Attic patch

[Zack Weinberg]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> A quick note on Attic directories: a ,v file is moved into Attic if
> and only if the tip of the trunk is dead.  However, the location of
> the ,v file is redundant -- cvs also marks the revision as "State:
> dead".  The existence of Attic is just a backward compatibility hack
> with versions of cvs predating the "dead" state support.

Some repositories (notably, IIRC, NetBSD core) have both foo,v and
Attic/foo,v - this is a hack way to rename files.  Probably isn't
necessary to handle this yet, but I would suggest putting in a 
'fail early and safe' check for the situation.

zw