Re: [Monotone-devel] Subdirectory support

[Matt Johnston]

I guess using scripts within the "main" project branch would achieve this
fairly easily. I was thinking in terms of ease-of-checkout for people who
are new to a particular project, however looking at Mozilla and some other big
projects, they also have checkout scripts.

One issue might be integration with a user's current settings, ie I've got some
shortcuts to run monotone with my default database - it'd be nice to avoid
having to specify the database directly for the scripts. Perhaps there should
be a mechanism for setting the "default" local database used by Monotone?

Cheers,
Matt

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:36:02AM -0700, Adam Logghe wrote:
> hmmm... I can see this being a semi-common scenario, Monotone itself
> might use this capability.
> 
> However, how would you add the syntax so as not to complexify the nicely
> simple Monotone commands of today? I'm an Arch refugee so I tend to
> value Monotone for that simplicity.
> 
> Further- wouldn't your problem be more simply solved by using basic
> shell scripting? I would think one of the only operations you want to do
> "all at once" would be something like a checkout. Most other operations
> would get unmanageable if you were doing them all at once ie merges etc.
> Commits generally deserve individual comments (and consideration) for
> another example.
> 
> The way I would approach it (I'm not needing this myself right now so
> take with a grain of salt) would be to create a dependent project shell
> script that I version controlled in the master project. I assume the
> script could be as simple as a series of "cd blah/" and "monotone
> checkout blah"? Maybe some file copies and symlinking to prep them?
> 
> You would then be left with a two step checkout ie master project and
> then run the dependencies checkout script.
> 
> Adam