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[Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit
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Bruce Stephens |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit |
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:37:28 +0100 |
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Daniel Carrera <address@hidden> writes:
> Lapo Luchini wrote:
>> Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:
>>>> It looks like the closest thing, except that it keeps a
>>>> history off the change and the undoing of the change. Is that right? Is
>>>> that a feature?
>>
>> Yup, it's because it's "monotonic" in nature you can only add, never remove.
>
>
> Does that have anything to do with why Monotone is called Monotone?
No, not really.
The original idea (IIRC) was that "monotone update" would always give
you a tree that was no worse than the one you had before. So you'd
have a tree that was monotonically improving in some useful sense (or
at least non-decreasing in quality).
- [Monotone-devel] Undo a commit, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Undo a commit, Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva, 2008/10/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit,
Bruce Stephens <=
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/09
- [Monotone-devel] monotone philosophy (was Re: Undo a commit), Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone philosophy (was Re: Undo a commit), Timothy Brownawell, 2008/10/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone philosophy (was Re: Undo a commit), hendrik, 2008/10/09
[Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/09
Re: [Monotone-devel] Undo a commit, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/09