[Monotone-devel] initial questions

[Derek Scherger]

Ok, I've read the docs and I'm definitely intrigued, but I do have some 
questions.

- With the MT/ directory at the root of my project is the intent that all 
monotone
commands must be executed from there (the project root)?

- Is there any way to limit how deep into my tree monotone add goes? --depth=1 
for
example? this seems like something that might be a bit awkward, having never 
really used
it on anything but a tiny test project.

- Currently checkout simply clobbers any files that are in the way, and I'm 
wondering if
instead it might just leave them as they are rather than doing something 
potentially
destructive. cvs and subversion simply stop in this case which also seems 
rather drastic
but on the other end of the spectrum. Presumably the status command would then 
see these
files as having changed if their hashes differ and the revert command would get 
things
back into a clean state if I need to. I've had a very quick look at the source, 
and my c++
is more than a bit rusty, but I'm attempting to hack this behaviour in just for 
fun since
it looks very easy. I've been looking at doing the same thing in subversion 
recently and
so far it seems really involved, in comparison with monotone the relative level 
of
difficulty appears to be orders of magnitude higher. I looked at it once with 
cvs too but
powered out before I got anywhere. If it works here I'll be obligated to switch!

- Another thought I've had recently about the .cvs, .svn, MT type of 
directories is that
they might be handled better by a file in my home dir (say in a ~/.monotone/ 
directory)
that has a  listing of filesystem paths or path prefixes and associating them 
with (in
this case) the proper MT dir that may also live in a ~/.monotone directory or 
somewhere.
this might answer my first question about where to execute monotone commands 
from, in that
if a lookup by path prefix was done, I could do them from anywhere in the 
project.

Thanks for any info!
--
Cheers,
Derek


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Cheers,
Derek
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