Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Serving * does not work

[Václav Haisman]

Bruno Hertz wrote:
> Matthew Gregan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> 
>>At 2005-10-12T01:17:27+0200, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:
>>
>>>When I server all branches with 
>>>
>>>monotone serve 0.0.0.0 *
>>>
>>>I can not sync from other computers, I get an error
>>>something like:
>>>
>>>access denied due to branch xxx.yyy
>>>
>>>Using monotone version 0.23.
>>>Is this known?
>>
>>You need to escape the asterisk, otherwise the shell will perform glob
>>expansion on it and replace the '*' with a list of files from the current
>>directory.
>>
>>If you run monotone with '--debug' specified, you'll see what's going on
>>because monotone will log the list of command-line arguments that it saw.
>>
>>Try the following, instead:
>>
>>$ monotone serve 0.0.0.0 '*'
>>
>>Cheers,
>>-mjg
>>-- 
>>Matthew Gregan                     |/
>>                                  /|                address@hidden
> 
> 
> As a sidenote, this will happen more often as monotone becomes more
> widespread, since ppl tend to be confused by tools which implement
> their own globbing syntax (cf. 'find'). Especially so when it's
> differing from shell semantics or limited to a subset of it.
> 
> We had a discussion about this some months ago, and I still think the
> current approach puts an unnecessary burden on users.
I don't think you are right. People who use monotone are not laymen.
They should be able to deal with such things. And if there is a note in
docs about then I don't see any problem.


> 
> Cheers, Bruno.

Vaclav Haisman

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