[Monotone-devel] DisTract made this week's LWN

2007-04-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Congrats to Matthew on getting a short page-leader write-up of DisTract in LWN this week! It'll be interesting to see the discussion: http://lwn.net/Articles/231009/ (Behind a paywall until next Thursday -- if you're not a LWN subscriber, you can also get it for free at:

Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory (was xmtn: Emacs integration via DVC)

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Keller
Derek Scherger schrieb: The amount of interest is encouraging though, and considering that apparently everyone who uses inventory has experienced the problems with the old format and wants to see it fixed maybe we should actually do something about it. ;) Yay, lets do it! Wrt the new

[Monotone-devel] Problem with recursive add files to workspace

2007-04-26 Thread Maxim Tyurin
Hi! OS: Windows XP SP2 If use curillic file name recursive addition is used does not work. If to specify a full path to a file then it it is added. If there is a cyrillic name of the directory that it in general it is impossible to add in workspace. Under Linux all works normally

[Monotone-devel] mtn switch_branch or similar functionality

2007-04-26 Thread Daniel THOMPSON
Hi Folks I'd like a way to tell monotone that 'next time I commit please use this branch instead of the branch your current revision comes from'. The request is based on observing people I work with continually commit to the 'wrong' branch. I think this can be achieved by updating _MTN/options

Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn switch_branch or similar functionality

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Keller
Daniel THOMPSON schrieb: I'd like a way to tell monotone that 'next time I commit please use this branch instead of the branch your current revision comes from'. The request is based on observing people I work with continually commit to the 'wrong' branch. Since I've did a similar fubar on the

Re: [Monotone-devel] Setting up syncs read/write permissions on Windows

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Keller
Ken MacDonald schrieb: Apologies if this is a repeat, but after sending it yesterday, I never received an email from monotone-devel, so I suspect it may have fallen through the cracks somewhere. Anyway, still looking for the following info, as we're pretty well dead in the water as far as using

Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Leake
Stephen Leake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can help with the tests and documentation. I've taken a first stab at updating tests/automate_inventory/__driver__.lua, and adding some comments in automate.cc. As an aside, I found the lua test framework quite nice, once I figured out how to run it on

Re: [Monotone-devel] Setting up syncs read/write permissions on Windows

2007-04-26 Thread Ken MacDonald
Thank you, Thomas! Most helpful; I'm now able to basically sync the two db's on my computer to each other; haven't tried any complex sync exclude patterns or anything, but this was a huge help. It would be nice if some of the documentation had some of this info for Windows, either as a separate

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Announce: DisTract - Distributed Bug Tracker based on Monotone

2007-04-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Bruce Stephens spake unto us the following wisdom: Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The big win is really having version control at all. Treating each bug as a collaboratively edited document is just the Right Thing; it means that history and merging are correctly handled, reducing

Re: [Monotone-devel] Setting up syncs read/write permissions on Windows

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Keller
Ken MacDonald schrieb: Thank you, Thomas! Most helpful; I'm now able to basically sync the two db's on my computer to each other; haven't tried any complex sync exclude patterns or anything, but this was a huge help. Cool! It would be nice if some of the documentation had some of this info

Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Keller
Stephen Leake schrieb: Stephen Leake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can help with the tests and documentation. I've taken a first stab at updating tests/automate_inventory/__driver__.lua, and adding some comments in automate.cc. Wow... you've been busy! You might want to provide a patch for

Re: [Monotone-devel] Setting up syncs read/write permissions on Windows

2007-04-26 Thread Ken MacDonald
Well, the thing is that Windows users in general have no real knowledge what a home directory is and where it is located at all. Probably from the day when these boxes only ran MS-DOS; who needed a home dir if you only have 1 user? But monotone apparently figures it out for you on the fly. The

Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Leake
Thomas Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Leake schrieb: Stephen Leake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can help with the tests and documentation. I've taken a first stab at updating tests/automate_inventory/__driver__.lua, and adding some comments in automate.cc. Wow... you've been

Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

2007-04-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:43:19PM -0400, Stephen Leake wrote: I don't have access to venge.net. I'm looking into other server options. I'll post a patch if that takes to long. Don't have time to follow this discussion in detail, but just send me a pubkey if you want write access to

Re: [Monotone-devel] Setting up syncs read/write permissions on Windows

2007-04-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:13:45PM -0400, Ken MacDonald wrote: Well, the thing is that Windows users in general have no real knowledge what a home directory is and where it is located at all. Probably from the day when these boxes only ran MS-DOS; who needed a home dir if you only have 1