Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug #21545 -- really annoying

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:17:05 -0500, Matthew 
Nicholson <address@hidden> said:

matt> Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
matt> > Yury Polyanskiy wrote:
matt> >> Please consider this bug... It always causes problems when updating
matt> >> upstream releases: you update, make a tag then realize that something
matt> >> was missing and you have to add the tag again.
matt> > Hm.. I see your point. However, there is 'mtn add --recursive', which 
you might want to use together with '--missing'.
matt> > 
matt> 
matt> I got hit by the same problem recently before I realized i
matt> needed --recursive.  Does it make sense to make this recursive
matt> by default?

We've had this discussion before, as I recall...

Maybe we'd need to have a section in the manual explaining the
rationale behind choices like these.

Personally, I currently prefer to have to say something explicit than
have a "surprise" addition of files just because I forgot that it was
recursive by default...

matt> I guess if I wanted to only add unknown files in a specific
matt> directory, I could use a restriction to the current dir (mtn add
matt> --unknown .).

And if I only want to add a directory (say, 'data') without adding the
files inside?

Cheers,
Richard

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