[Monotone-devel] Re: [PATCH] Re: on the semantics of 'mtn mv'

[Ben Walton]

I should have added earlier that the aforementioned patch corrects
and/or makes consistent all 4 of the cases I initially presented.

Thanks
-Ben

On 7/30/07, Ben Walton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, I've implemented a 'fix' for this behaviour.  I believe that mtn
> rename is now more consistent with mv(1).  The attached patch includes
> updates for the code, docs and tests.  The diff is against revision
> b78672c7f625a5875db79b4a27567e751e1103bc
>
> The log message I used locally is:
>    * Corrected the way mtn rename works such that it is more consistent with 
> the
>        way mv(1) works.  Eg: if moving to a directory the source item
> is nested in
>        the directory and the directory added if necessary (assuming other 
> checks
>        pass).
>
> As an aside (and I haven't tested at all), were keys and permissions
> that existed on venge.net moved over directly to monotone.ca?
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
>
>
> On 7/25/07, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:18:32AM +1000, William Uther wrote:
> > > I agree that things seems inconsistent given that example.  I'm not
> > > sure if we want case 1 to behave like case 2; I'd go with the other
> > > way around.  I'm not sure I like this 'magic add' semantics (but I'm
> > > not horribly opposed to it either).  Case 4 should return a user error.
> >
> > I know I'm usually the one haranguing against magic, but I'm actually
> > pro- magic add.  The reason being, in this case the user's intentions
> > are totally clear to the program, and the program's results are quite
> > obvious to the user.  We all know the "stupid program, if you knew
> > what I wanted then why didn't you do it?" feeling, and it's nice not
> > to invoke it more than absolutely necessary.  (It is, of course,
> > absolutely necessary in all sorts of cases where the user's request
> > *is* ambiguous, no matter what they think...)
> >
> > -- Nathaniel
> >
> > --
> > - Don't let your informants burn anything.
> > - Don't grow old.
> > - Be good grad students.
> >   -- advice of Murray B. Emeneau on the occasion of his 100th birthday
> >
> >
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>
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> Ben Walton <address@hidden>
>
> When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When
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Ben Walton <address@hidden>

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When
many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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