Re: [Monotone-devel] Commit without working copy

[Nathan Myers]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:37:26PM +0800, Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:
> 
> When a webpage is requested, my webserver runs PHP script. I would like 
> this script to run 'monotone cat' on database stored locally on 
> webserver's host, capture the output and serve it as a webpage to web 
> client. At this point user can manipulate the served content in its web 
> client, and then send it back to the web server. The web server should 
> in turn run monotone and commit the new version of the content to the 
> monotone database (stored locally on webserver's host).
> 
> So basically I would like to get revisions in and out of monotone 
> without creating a working copy.

This sounds equivalent to "I would like to be able to commit individual
files".  Is this just because you don't want to waste the disk space,
or because you don't want monotone to rescan a whole (arbitrarily large)
tree every time a user alters one file in it?

Nathan Myers
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