Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [Bug 1311] monotone is broken on Ubuntu

[Eric Anderson]

Nathaniel Smith writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:03:56AM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
 > > address@hidden wrote:
 > > > http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311
 > > 
 > > You can get the file from http://www.brianlane.com/OE.mtn.gz
 > 
 > This file appears to contain some cached data generated by Eric
 > Anderson's net.venge.monotone.experiment.performance branch.  As is
 > usual for such experiments, there hasn't been any work done to make
 > sure it interoperates well with mainline monotone, or that there's any
 > kind of reasonable migration path between them (or even between
 > versions on that branch).  You're of course free to use such branches,
 > but it's at your own risk, and you need to make sure you know what
 > you're doing...

Yea, it's a pity Brian didn't include the bug report in the e-mail; I
would have recognized it immediately.  Someone build a database using
binary rosters -- these make things go much faster but immediately
fail when used with standard monotone.  The only way back to an
all-mainline database is to do a monotone serve with the
experimental-performance branch monotone and do a pull with a normal
monotone.
        -Eric