Comment 4 for bug 299879

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 299879] Re: commit --exclude should NOT exclude TREE_ROOT

2009/11/4 Alexander Belchenko <email address hidden>:
> How's nice! It's not bug -- it's feature.
>
> It's a leaking abstraction. Leaking in the face of user. The same
> command-line for any other commit works fine. Only first commit is so
> special. You need to commit TREE_ROOT always? Why you doing it
> implicitly on first user commit? Why not doing it explicitly on branch
> initialization? Automatic explicit commit by bzr itself to froze
> TREE_ROOT.

So you think maybe this command should succeed and silently add the
tree root, so to the user it looks like a command that changed no
files?

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>