[Monotone-devel] Re: initial questions

[graydon hoare]

Derek Scherger wrote:

> - With the MT/ directory at the root of my project is the intent that 
> all monotone commands must be executed from there (the project root)?

yes. there will eventually be code to "jump up" to the root directory of 
a project if monotone is run from a subdirectory. there is no such code 
at the moment.

> - Is there any way to limit how deep into my tree monotone add goes? 
> --depth=1 for example? this seems like something that might be a bit 
> awkward, having never really used it on anything but a tiny test project.

there is currently no way to do this, but it could be added. another 
possibility is to use something like:

  find . -maxdepth 1 -a -type f -a -name \*.[ch] | xargs monotone add

> - Currently checkout simply clobbers any files that are in the way, and 
> I'm wondering if instead it might just leave them as they are rather 
> than doing something potentially destructive. 

it doesn't do this currently, but a patch would be welcome. I think it 
might be worth parameterizing with a hook function (adding an entry to 
lua.hh and lua.cc as well) but otherwise it sounds like a sensible thing 
to add.

> - 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)

I think this feature, while possible, would confuse matters more than it 
would help. my experience has been that people like self contained 
metadata. they like it to sit in a directory closely associated with the 
project.

thanks for your interest, let us know if there are more things which 
you'd prefer to see.

-graydon