[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

[Koen Kooi]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> "Justin Patrin"<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > It seems that some of the folks at OpenEmbedded are now grumbling
> > about use of monotone again and that some of our key developers are
> > looking to switch to something else (hg or git)[1]. The main point
> > of contention seems to revolve around, as we've seem lately on this
> > list, getting rid of revisions. In this particular case a revision
> > had been distributed that made unwanted changes. It was a head
> > revision and was suspended by a developer but other developers who
> > had versions of monotone prior to the suspend functionality blindly
> > merged it with their code, causing a chain of suspensions/removals
> > that was eventually fixed with a reverse patch.
>
> So how, concretely, would this have played out better had OpenEmbedded
> been using either hg or git?
>
> [...]

Well, git has this feature:

"An example from man git-push:
--force
Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an 
ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. This flag disables the 
check. This can cause the remote repository to lose commits; use it with 
care."

which I suspect will get used quite often "because the server didn't 
seem to respond".

<sarcasms>But that would be OK, since deleting the server and setting up 
a new repo is real easy and fast</sarcasm>