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bug #17237: 'mtn add *' should not bomb out on _MTN

Submitted by:  Nathaniel Smith <njs>
Submitted on:  Sun 30 Jul 2006 06:59:26 PM UTC  
Votes:  1  
 
Category: command line UISeverity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed
mtn version --full: 

0.28, at least

Tue 26 Dec 2006 08:53:07 PM UTC, comment #2:

This should be fixed with the changes in eefa7963333978a4fccede624932e6720b8907d3 and 460c36c1128986f68bcf5e9402d2b5abbff19fd5.

The issue of creating an empty restriction does exist though. It's not clear whether this is going to be a problem or not though.

Derek Scherger <dscherger>
Project Member
Wed 13 Sep 2006 09:34:22 PM UTC, comment #1:

I can confirm this also happens on 0.29

Anonymous
Sun 30 Jul 2006 06:59:26 PM UTC, original submission:

People very often try "mtn add *" to add everything, and are frustrated when it doesn't work. Empirically, they do not immediately think to try "add ." or "add --unknown" or such things that do work; they get confused and stuck or start doing horrible things with find(1), etc. If add (at least) is passed _MTN on the command line, we should issue a warning and then pretend it was not passed.

(Possible issue: a restriction containing only "_MTN" and a restriction containing nothing at all are wildly different. So we can't necessarily exactly pretend it was simply left off the command line. I don't think "add" uses restrictions right now, so this might not be an issue, but perhaps it should anyway...?)

Nathaniel Smith <njs>
Project Member

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Tue 26 Dec 2006 08:53:07 PM UTCdschergerStatusNone=>Fixed
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