Hello,
I've been using monotone for about a month. I have a one-person project,
so primarily I just wanted something to track history and allow me to
recreate old releases if I had to. So far, I like monotone.
Couple questions, and I apologize if they are newbie stuff:
1. I installed monotone 0.20 originally. I saw no problems with
it. Yesterday I tried upgrading to monotone 0.22. After the upgrade, the
diff function no longer works - I get the Windows popup box that says the
program attempted an illegal operation and must be terminated. Yes, I did
the db migrate, and other functions besides diff worked fine. I downgraded
to 0.20 and diff works again. System is WinXP. I installed from the
available Win installer - I didn't build monotone myself. Known
problem? Workarounds?
2. I'd like to set up some offsite backup. If I were to ftp my monotone
database files to my ISP, is my data safe? That is, is the database
encrypted? Would it work better if I somehow was able to use monotone's
replication features to keep a remote database in sync? If that means my
ISP would have to open a hole in its firewall, I doubt if they would do
that. Suggestions?
3. Do you guys have any shortcut ways to compare a working copy to the
most recent previous version in the database? monotone diff doesn't do it,
because the working copy is checked in. I want to compare against the
version previous to the most recent check-in. I can do it by finding the
right hash key, but that's a bit clumsy. Is there a way to tag a certain
revision with a human friendly label, so for example, I could diff all
changes since the last customer release without finding the right hash
key? I did read the manual and tutorial looking for these features, but if
they are there I missed them.
Thanks very much,
Howard
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