Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug report: monotone add command fails on Windows

[Howard Spindel]

At 12:03 AM 10/8/2005, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 07 
> Oct 2005 21:41:08 -0700, Howard Spindel <address@hidden> said:
>
> howard> Second, the "database" line in MT/options is weird because
> howard> it's using the shorthand 8 letter filename instead of the full
> howard> name "OpenSourceCode".  After you fix the first point, this
> howard> line should change.  Check it again, and if it continues to
> howard> use a shorthand filename I'd edit it so it shows the full
> howard> filename.  The debug trace shows that monotone couldn't find
> howard> your MT directory, and perhaps that's because of the shorthand
> howard> file name.
>
> I'm curious, why wouldn't it work with the short-hand variant of the
> path?  I agree, it's *ugly*, but not invalid.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard

I don't have any particular reason to believe that it wouldn't work 
with the shorthand path, but the user was having problems and this 
was an anomaly.  My suggestion was just to eliminate it as a possible 
source of any problem because that was an easy thing to do.

It is a possibility the embedded tilde could cause parsing problems 
somewhere.  I also thought it strange that the database line had 
gotten set with a shorthand path, and thought it possible that 
something strange had happened previously to make that occur.

Mostly, it's just the paranoia of an old programmer who doesn't like 
unexplained anomalies.  :-)

Regards,
Howard