On Friday 30 January 2009 14:11:16 Alexey Mahotkin wrote: > hi! > > please consider more corrections, >
Hi all! See below for my comments. > thank you, > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Thomas Keller <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:49 AM > Subject: version control comparison > To: [email protected] > Cc: monotone-devel <[email protected]> > > > > Hi! > > I've noticed on http://www.versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/ that > monotone is listed, but unfortunately a few information are wrong or > missing there. Would you mind and correct them? > > (Source: http://www.versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Monotone/index.html) > > "Intelligent Merging after Moves or Renames" > > Fully supported. One of monotone's huge strengths is the explicit and > correct tracking of file names by internal node ids, so regardless how > you move or rename a file between two development lines, a later merge > will always do the right thing (tm). > Corrected. > "File and Directories Copies" > > Actually, "tracked" copies are currently not supported, i.e. monotone > does not track information about copied files. Copy support is in the > work for some time now (as well as support for sutures), but not yet > released. > Corrected. > "Repository Permissions" > > Current monotone has specific read permissions with which you can > control the access to certain parts (aka branch patterns) for known user > ids, but less specific write permissions. Basically, if a user is > allowed to write to a server, it can write everything there pretty much > unrestricted. We're aware that this is problematic for a couple of > reasons and we're working on a solution. Our mailing list and wiki > contains a couple of theoretical stuff how we plan to implement it > ("policy branches") and there is a basic implementation in an > experimental branch, but its not yet finished. > Fixed. > "Tracking Line-wise File History" > > We're on 0.41 now, I guess you can remove the comment "since 0.19", > which was released more than three years ago ;) > Done. > "Per-File Commit Messages" > > Its possible with so-called attributes to attach any kind of information > to a single node (file or directory), however these attributes become > part of the changeset and thus the revision. So changing things later on > leads to new revisions obviously. One can, however, attach certificates > at a later stage to any committed revision. Default certificates for a > revision include the date, author, changelog and branch certificate. > How does it differ from the current entry? ("Yes. It is possible to attach a comment to a certain file at a certain revision.") > "Documentation" > > The man page has been removed, but the excellent documentation is still > available in PDF and HTML format and the command line client provides > easy and grouped access to all available commands. > Fixed. > "Web interface" > > There is ViewMTN (http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/) and a Trac plugin > (http://tracmtn.1erlei.de/) available. > > "Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces." > > There are a couple of GUIs available, f.e. monotone-viz > (http://oandrieu.nerim.net/monotone-viz/), an excellent repository > browser, guitone (http://guitone.thomaskeller.biz), which can handle > repositories as well as workspaces, and a relatively new Perl/GTK2-based > frontend named mtn-browse (currently its only available in the > repository under > http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/all/branch/changes/net.venge.monotone.contrib >.mtn-browse) > > A complete list of tools is available under > http://monotone.ca/wiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools/ > Updated. Thanks! Shlomi Fish > > Thanks in advance, > Thomas. > > -- > GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | [email protected] | http://thomaskeller.biz > Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information > on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period > of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://xrl.us/bjn8q God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
