Re: [Monotone-devel] non-recursive add considered harmful

[Ulf Ochsenfahrt]

Brian May wrote:
> > > > > > "Daniel" == Daniel Carosone <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Daniel> If you see a problem at any of these stages, where you've
>     Daniel> added a file you didn't want, you can always drop that
>     Daniel> file again before committing, and there'll be no record of
>     Daniel> it.
>
> If you accidently add an entire tree when you only wanted to add one
> file (where did those files come from?) then that could be a lot of
> drops.
>
> (yes, been in this situation with svn, and hated it; although I seem
> to recall svn's remove command didn't always work as required in this
> situation).
>
> Typically I like to add files one at a time, so I can see what is
> being added, and why. It also makes it easier when writing scripts to
> automatically add files.

I typically do:
mtn ls unknown
(if necessary rm files or add files to .mtn-ignore)
mtn add --unknown

And I think it is a really really bad idea if these two disagree in 
which files are unknown, i.e., if mtn ls unknown doesn't list files 
recursively, but mtn add --unknown does add them recursively.

Cheers,

-- Ulf