why does "bzr cat" throw junk on screen before the first "bzr commit"? bzr bug?

[Rahul Nabar]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:19 PM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:

> so it is reporting an error, just not in a pleasant manner.
>
> I can't find a specific bug for this, I think it should give a nicer
> error.

I agree.


> Because that's often not what you will do.
>
> It's better to have the consistency of what "bzr add" does than to save
> one step when you do "bzr add && bzr commit". It also avoids those
> who didn't want the commit having to figure out how to undo it. Lastly,
> starting a project is a relatively rare operation, so optimising for it
> doesn't make much sense.
>

Thanks James.  I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I am
using bazaar somewhat differently from what it was intended to do.

I guess it is built around the notion of seperate "projects". But I am
using it to version miscellaneous, scattered files on my directory
tree. So I tend to add and commit each time I think of a file I ought
to version. Thus adding a file tends to be not such a rare operation
for me.

But, that's just my atypical usage I guess!

-- 
Rahul