Re: [Monotone-devel] Feature request: mtn rebase

[Daniel Carrera]

Tero Koskinen wrote:
> QuickieTasks wiki page (at
> http://wiki-monotone.levitte.org/wiki/QuickieTasks/ ) lists "mtn detach"
> and "mtn attach", which do the same effect, if I have understood
> correctly. Is it better for the UI to have the action named as "attach"
> or "rebase"?

Some thoughts on that:

If you are going to have two commands, I guess attach/detach is better. 
But I don't understand the need for detach. If you have only one 
command, I think "rebase" is better because it is consistent with other 
Monotone commands ("base revision"). You point out that it is not 
consistent with git, but Bruce explained that git is not consistent with 
anything. I've heard elsewhere that git is not internally consistent 
either. So I'm not sure that consistency with git should be a goal. I 
would worry that if Monotone tried to match git, then Monotone would 
become inconsistent too.

As a new user, I can say that Monotone feels very consistent and that 
this has made it easier to learn for me. So it is worth pausing for a 
minute to think about this issue.


Maybe there is a better command name we haven't thought of. I like this one:

mtn set revision <rev-id>

But that would conflict with the existing "mtn set" command.


Daniel.