Re: [Monotone-devel] initial questions

[Emile Snyder]

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 20:01, Derek Scherger wrote:
> - Another thought I've had recently about the .cvs, .svn, MT type of 
> directories is that
> they might be handled better by a file in my home dir (say in a ~/.monotone/ 
> directory)
> that has a  listing of filesystem paths or path prefixes and associating them 
> with (in
> this case) the proper MT dir that may also live in a ~/.monotone directory or 
> somewhere.
> this might answer my first question about where to execute monotone commands 
> from, in that
> if a lookup by path prefix was done, I could do them from anywhere in the 
> project.

Mostly just lurk on the monotone list, but was interested by this.  If I
understand what you're asking for here, I would disagree that it's
desired behavior.  One of the nice things, in my opinion, about CVS
working copies is that they're fully self contained.  I can tar up a
checked out project directory, move it to another machine, do 'cvs
commit' and it works just fine.  Similarly, if I have a large project
checked out on a machine with slow network access, I can 'cp --recursive
foo newfoo' and newfoo is a fully functional working copy.

best,
-emile

> Thanks for any info!
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Derek
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