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

[Derek Scherger]

graydon hoare wrote:
> 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?

I've been wondering whether commands like cat and complete really need a file/manifest 
type at all. Presumably the version codes are unique and only live as either a file or a 
manifest. What about this:

$ monotone complete 5d
5d2e96646f7be38c0aceacf9331ab687e8130f93 (manifest)
$ monotone complete 45
45229a1c4745275390cee1a1a60433db5e82578e (file)

Where monotone tells the user what type of object the manifest id refers to?

As far as f... and m... command variants go, I think I'd favour a smaller number of 
commands with some options. Perhaps monotone diff -f for files and monotone diff -m for 
manifests would be good in cases where the above idea doesn't work.

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Cheers,
Derek