[Monotone-devel] Re: write access to my public server (was Re: [PATCH] add xemacs ...)

[graydon hoare]

Christof Petig wrote:

> For most people a public server is simply too much monthly cost and 
> maintenance work to take this step. Having web access/email is 
> commonplace. And even my sourceforge/berlios accounts do not help me here.

a shame. perhaps someday they will be convinced to run netsync service 
too. until then, I suppose I will fill in with my own hardware :)

> Here it is:
> [pubkey address@hidden
> MIGdMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GLADCBhwKBgQCu12nYsMMuTfoiyRYVxwQrOEfg58Qiy119
> mIWGBIN6NTVOqebBWrpeDJbCm/LSwTeIJYIedvbu3r36Eq8XpcmRxgcenLajYopPDgmvlA3g
> HA19SuR+aGkNrheF6YSbSCg9RcSceExeoSjObR0QmQvOSC/RsDl0pPEajbxx9phiCwIBEQ==
> [end]

great! added. you should be able to write to the net.venge.monotone 
collection on off.net now.

> - is it possible to look into a public/private key packet and get some 
> information? Which tool to use (to me this looks like a binary blob)?

afaik it's just RSA parameters: 2 BER (and base64) encoded large 
integers. there's not much substructure.

> - I want to mark a head as no longer valid (my use system-wide lua 
> changes) - monotone disapprove?

yup, that should work.

> - is there any more elegant way to switch to a different head on a 
> branch than "monotone cat manifest 6dcb42a9 > MT/manifest ; monotone 
> revert"?

not currently, but I'd be happy to add one.

> perhaps an optional id for revert might be a good idea.

unfortunately revert already takes filenames as an argument. it might 
make sense to make a manifest and file variant of revert. njs has 
proposed that maybe commands should just get an 'f' or 'm' prefix, i.e. 
mrevert or frevert, mlog or flog, mdiff or fdiff. what do you think 
about that convention?

-graydon