In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:27:27 -0700, Nathaniel
Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
njs> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:18:29AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
wrote:
njs> > monotone> (ALIAS(import,setup)): Add setup alias.
njs> >
njs> > I violently disagree with that particular detail. To me, importing is
njs> > something very different from setting up a directory for use as a work
njs> > directory.
njs>
njs> Mm. The problem is that the "setup" command's actual
njs> functionality is much more like importing than like setting up a
njs> directory for use as a work directory.
Really? I don't agree, but maybe it's old 'cvs import' fostering that
affects me. As far as I can tell, 'setup' is there to create new
projects, while (in my opinion) import should import a new snapshot of
something to a potentially existing branch, taking into account things
like files that have disappeared since last snapshot (and should
therefore be dropped). See contrib/monotone-import.pl.
njs> In paricular, the problem is that people keep thinking that if
njs> they want to start working on an existing project, they should do
njs> "setup; checkout".
Huh??? Why do people think they should setup for an existing project?
I'm a bit baffled here. And I'm a bit baffled that I haven't heard of
similar problems with other SCMs with similar functionality...
njs> It would be handy to have a "import" command that did the
njs> equivalent of "setup && add .".
As already pointed out above, 'add .' isn't enough.
njs> It would also be good to have another name for "setup"; it keeps
njs> tripping people up and screwing up usability. "new_project"?
njs> "create_project"?
I like "create_project".
Cheers,
Richard
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