[Monotone-devel] Re: CVS-like aliases in monotone?

[graydon hoare]

Roland Dreier wrote:

> Hi, I've been looking at monotone, and I'm very interested in trying
> it out.  However, it does seem to be missing one feature that is
> pretty important for my usage -- something like CVS aliases (or
> subversion externals).

there is a general UI feature in the works called "restrictions", which 
permit you to work on a subset of the directories in a working copy (and 
also control work from subdirectories of the working copy) by masking 
out portions of the manifest during an operation.

I suspect something like aliases will develop out of this work too, 
considering a named grouping as a subset of all subdirectories under the 
root, rather than "extra directories beyond the root". alas, at the 
moment there is no such feature: a checkout is always from the root of 
your manifest, and always includes all directories under it.

-graydon