Re: [Monotone-devel] weird monotone behavior

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 20:22 -0600, Hugo Cornelis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using monotone 0.40 statically linked, downloaded from the
> monotone website on a redhat enterprise server 5.  I encountered the
> following problem:
> 
> I have a project that uses a database ~/neurospaces_project/MTN/installer.mtn
> 
> I pulled an external database of the same project to
> ~/neurospaces_project/MTN/neurospaces-developer.mtn
> 
> Changed the options files in a workspace, then did the things below.
> In a summary, after changing the option file, asking for a log
> overwrites the options file and makes it invalid.  Changing back to
> the original database did not help.
> 
> Not sure if I am doing something wrong, but monotone making the
> options file invalid makes me feel uncomfortable :(
> 
> [19:46] (0,2) 0 $ cat _MTN/options
> database "/local_home/hugo/neurospaces_project/MTN/neurospaces-developer.mtn
>   branch "0"

There's no closing '"' on the database line, so really the options file
is already invalid. It *should* give an error when trying to parse
_MTN/options (and then not overwrite it), and in fact it *does* give an
error if I try the same thing with
  branch "x"
instead of
  branch "0"
. So apparently the basic_io parser can fail to detect certain error
conditions...


-- 
Timothy

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