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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-08 01:11:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-08 01:11:38 +0200 |
| commit | ed0c680790950354f15fb5835e1d7b213efa1bf8 (patch) | |
| tree | 59af376652005a0b02c95945c1df6044882a94e5 /docs/USERGUIDE.md | |
| parent | 4c8e4fb8b8fcd3f78bf4e3e736a058c351aac973 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-ed0c680790950354f15fb5835e1d7b213efa1bf8.tar.gz | |
fix(node): name a root after its drive when its basename is taken
Two drives with a folder of the same name made the second add fail,
and no screen could supply another name. add_root now names it
"Name (H)" or "Name (parent)"; a name the operator typed is still
refused on a clash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index ea81c76..adca9e3 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -504,8 +504,10 @@ meshbay-node root remove Films Rules that will bite you if you do not know them: -- **Two roots cannot share a basename**, even on different drives. `/mnt/a/Films` - and `/mnt/b/Films` is refused; name one of them explicitly. +- **Two roots cannot share a name**, even on different drives. When you add + `/mnt/b/Films` beside `/mnt/a/Films`, the second one is called `Films (b)` + (on Windows, `H:\Films` beside `G:\Films` becomes `Films (H)`). A name you + give with `--name` that is already taken is refused. - **No root inside another.** The same bytes would be indexed twice under two identities. - **Renaming a root rewrites every path under it**, so it is an explicit act, |