Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> writes: >> But it's better to checkout the two projects in parallel; there's no >> reason the directory structure has to match the main/sub project >> structure. > > Well, actually, there is. > > I'm writing stories. Some are short, some are long and end up > organised into many files. Each story, once it's well-enough conceived > to be considered a story, ends up being a separate (sub)project.
Ok. > But there's also prewriting, where ideas and text fragments are thrown > about long before there's any pretense of them being stories. These > get looked through now and then, and sometimes they, in various > combinations, become stories of their own. Whrn that happens, I make a > subdirectory to isolate them from the general chaos and make a > concentrated place to work on them. Why is that new directory under some other story, rather than at the "stories" root level? > So each story's main directory is checked into a monotone branch of its > own, so its further revision history doesn't get mixed with the > completely different revision history of other, irrelevant stories. Right. So why are new ones not like that? > But the main directory, that contains all these subproject workspaces, > is where all the initial inchoate thoughts are conceived and stored, as > well as README files explaining the organisation that does exist, and > various scripts that manage the whole thing. The directory for inchoate thoughts should be in parallel to the stand-alone stories: stories inchoate story_1 story_2 > And it's all wrapped up in one big directory for convenience, to > separate it from other things that have nothing to do with story > writing. See above; no problem > The main directory is the natural place to put the idea soup that > hasn't crystallized into specific projects yet. That's not "natural" to me. But I'm glad monotone can work for you :). -- -- Stephe _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel