Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How will policy branches work?

[Nuno Lucas]

On Feb 6, 2008 5:32 PM, Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> wrote:
> Markus Schiltknecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > I'd generally vote for files, even if that's still a long way to go.
>
> That strikes me as impractical.  How can I merge two revisions if I
> can't see some of the changed files?  If my local repository contains
> the files, how convincing is it that I'm prevented access to them in
> some sense?

"Policy branches" aside, this is a feature it would be nice to have:
merge/propagate with path restrictions.

A simple (and common) use-case is propagating/merging changes made in
a sub-directory (possibly a library, like sqlite in monotone repo) to
another branch.

That's one case where I use external diff/patch a lot ;-)


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas