Re: branch patterns

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 06:08:50PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
> In message <[email protected]> on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:54:52 -0400, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> said:
> 
> hendrik> OK.  Here goes:
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> Every time the serve command is
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> mtn --db ~/monotone/write.db -k [email protected] serve
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> and the client-side sync command is
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> mtn sync
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> And I did remember to restart the server for each run, after changing 
> hendrik> read-permissions.
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> When on the server the read-permissions reads as follows
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> hendrik@april:~/monotone$ cat ~/.monotone/read-permissions
> hendrik> pattern "com.pooq.hendrik.write*"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> hendrik@april:~/monotone$ 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> thee output from sync is:
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ mtn sync
> hendrik> mtn: connecting to mtn://topoi.pooq.com
> hendrik> mtn: finding items to synchronize:
> hendrik> mtn: certificates | keys | revisions
> hendrik> mtn:          192 |    3 |        64
> hendrik> mtn: warning: protocol error while processing peer mtn://topoi.pooq.com: 'received network error: denied 'ad968be7244234e8d653201ab1ddd33b53ffa04d' read permission for '*' excluding '' because of branch 'com.pooq.hendrik.write.melinda''
> hendrik> mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | revs in
> hendrik> mtn:       167 |       328 |       0
> hendrik> mtn: error: processing failure while talking to peer mtn://topoi.pooq.com, disconnecting
> hendrik> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> whereas with this read-permissions file on the server
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> hendrik@april:~/.monotone$ cat read-permissions
> hendrik> pattern "com.pooq.hendrik.write.*"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]"
> hendrik> allow "[email protected]"
> hendrik> hendrik@april:~/.monotone$ 
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> sync produces:
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ mtn sync
> hendrik> mtn: connecting to mtn://topoi.pooq.com
> hendrik> mtn: finding items to synchronize:
> hendrik> mtn: certificates | keys | revisions
> hendrik> mtn:          192 |    3 |        64
> hendrik> mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | revs in | revs out
> hendrik> mtn:     1.1 k |     1.4 k |     0/0 |      0/0
> hendrik> mtn: successful exchange with mtn://topoi.pooq.com
> hendrik> mtn: note: your workspace has not been updated
> hendrik> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ 
> 
> Thanks.  That does seem weird, but to make sure we have all details,
> what output do you get on the client side if you do this?
> 
>   mtn ls vars

When I do this client-side command outside of a workspace, no output at 
all.  But when I do it in the same workspace I reported on before, 
there's a whole lot of stuff.  Is this normal, or is there a lot of 
historical cruft that might be getting in the way?

hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ ls
Melinda  _MTN
hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ mtn ls vars
database: default-exclude-pattern 
database: default-include-pattern *
database: default-server mtn://topoi.pooq.com
known-servers: 172.25.1.11 599ffffec98e8155a17f3bbf177de27a409d4824
known-servers: 4691://topoi.pooq.com/write 599ffffec98e8155a17f3bbf177de27a409d4824
known-servers: mtn://topoi.pooq.com 599ffffec98e8155a17f3bbf177de27a409d4824
server-exclude: 172.25.1.11 
server-exclude: 4691://topoi.pooq.com/write 
server-exclude: monotone://topoi.pooq.com/write 
server-exclude: mtn://topoi.pooq.com 
server-exclude: mtn://topoi.pooq.com/write 
server-exclude: ssh://[email protected]/~hendrik/monotone/write.db 
server-include: 172.25.1.11 *
server-include: 4691://topoi.pooq.com/write *
server-include: monotone://topoi.pooq.com/write *
server-include: mtn://topoi.pooq.com *
server-include: mtn://topoi.pooq.com/write *
server-include: ssh://[email protected]/~hendrik/monotone/write.db *
hendrik@notlookedfor:~/write/Melinda$ 

> 
> hendrik> > hendrik> Why?  What are the rules for '*' and '.' in patterns?
> hendrik> > 
> hendrik> > The same as bash globs.
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> So "." should match a period, and "*" matches zero or more characters.
> hendrik> That's what I thought.  Bash has some special rules about filenames 
> hendrik> starting with a dot.  Could they be tripping me up?
> 
> The special rule about file names starting with a dot has nothing to
> do with globbing per se...  or bash, for that matter.  It's 'ls' that
> filters them away (unless you say otherwise, with '-a').
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
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> 
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