Subject: bug#6513: vc-mtn broken with monotone 0.48 (can't even open files)

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:57:59 -0400

Julio Merino <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:19 AM, era eriksson wrote:
>
>> According to downstream Debian bug #590262 it only fails the first
>> time
>> you try to visit the file; trying again supposedly succeeds.
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590262
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>
> I have found the following to be a better workaround:

A better workaround is to disable the monotone backend:

(setq vc-handled-backends (delq 'Mtn vc-handled-backends))

> ; Trick vc-mtn into not finding monotone.  It's currently completely
> broken
> ; with monotone 0.48.
> (setq vc-mtn-program "non-existent")
> -----
>
> Still, I'd love to see this fixed.

Do you want to take a stab at it?
Just need to modify the parser for the mtn command...