On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:08:35PM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote: > Am 08.05.10 13:44, schrieb Stephen Leake: > > A recent change lets setup init a new database _MTN/mtn.db if none is given. > > > > First, this needs to be documented in the manual; both that setup will > > init the database if it is not already, and that it provides a default > > name. > > Yes, I forgot that and I'll do it shortly. Thanks for he reminder. > > > Second, what is the rationale, both for providing any default name, and > > choosing this particular name? > > The rationale is simply to make monotone less database-centric and > verbose with respect to the commands needed to start with a fresh project. > > > I can see that proving a default db name it makes it easy to start a > > totally new project. But it's a significant change, and I'm not happy > > with the path. > > > > I'm ok with initializing the database if needed. > > > > Once the project grows a branch that they want to checkout into a > > different directory, having the database in <branch_1>/_MTN/mtn.db will > > be very odd and confusing; people will wonder if there should be one db > > per branch, or one db per workspace. > > > > I think ~/.monotone/mtn.db would be a better place for the default > > database. > > Those people who store their databases elsewhere have to specify their > complete path now anyways and setup now basically follows the same > principles like clone (even uses the same path). Beside that, setup even > informs the user that it creates a new database in _MTN/, which clone > currently does not iirc. > > So let me repeat again, what I wanted to improve is the situation for > first time users and I personally find a place like ~/.monotone/mtn.db > not a good place at all (what if the user starts another, different > project - should we reuse the same database then?), because its much > hidden and maybe even physically away from the actual workspace setup.
Last thing I want is to create a random data base when I just forget to mention what database I want to use. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
