Re: [Monotone-devel] Initially creating a branch without committing changes?

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:
> > Ralf S. Engelschall schrieb:
> >> The only possibility I've found is to manually issue an additional cert
> >> for the new branch via:
> >>
> >>   $ mtn cert h:foo.bar.cvs branch foo.bar
> >>
> >> This worked just fine. But I'm not sure whether whether this really is
> >> the correct approach.
> >
> > This is the only way of doing this now.
>
> In the sense that "mtn approve h:foo.bar.cvs --branch foo.bar" does
> the same thing, that is :)  Or am I mistaken?

Ah, ok, works, too.

But is _THIS_ really the intention behind the "mtn approve"?
Interesting, I've always wondered what this command is about and
especially why it is named "approve". Well, even if it is just for
creating branches I'm still totally puzzled why it is named "approve"...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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