[Monotone-devel] some basic notes on object versioning

2005-06-05 Thread Derek Scherger
discalimer: this may not be of any particular interest to anyone! it may also be incorrect and does not necessarily represent how monotone does or will version things. it's pretty basic and may be old news. I simply jotted down these notes the other day while thinking about things like explicit di

Re: [Monotone-devel] Workflow with Monotone

2005-06-05 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:23:46PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > An option is to use disapprove on B. This creates a new revision > (direkt child of B) containing the "anti-patch" of B, and you can > continue from there: > > A > | > B > | > Bd > | > C > > And if you

Re: [Monotone-devel] Workflow with Monotone

2005-06-05 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:49:38 +0200, Wim Oudshoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: woudshoo> Desired situation: woudshoo> woudshoo>A [project.wim] woudshoo>| \_ B [project.wim.experiment] woudshoo>C [project.wim] wo

Re: [Monotone-devel] "prune-branch" cert implementation issues.

2005-06-05 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 05 Jun 2005 17:53:07 -0400, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: mstone> I'm attempting to give people a clean way to mark a revision mstone> as "no-longer-a-head-for-branch-X". There are two use cases mstone> for a feature like this one: mstone> mstone

[Monotone-devel] Re: "prune-branch" cert implementation issues.

2005-06-05 Thread Willem Rein Oudshoorn
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In discussions on IRC, we decided to try to implement at least the > first case with a new certificate type, tentatively named a > "prune-branch" certificate by dscherger. Oh one minor note, because the certificate says "do not consider this revision a

[Monotone-devel] Re: "prune-branch" cert implementation issues.

2005-06-05 Thread Willem Rein Oudshoorn
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting to give people a clean way to mark a revision as > "no-longer-a-head-for-branch-X". There are two use cases for a feature > like this one: > > 1) To ignore old branches which have subsequently been merged into the > mainline. > 2) To mar

Re: [Monotone-devel] Workflow with Monotone

2005-06-05 Thread Wim Oudshoorn
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:23:46PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04 Jun 2005 22:08:56 +0200, Willem Rein > Oudshoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > woudshoo> Use case I - Discard work > woudshoo> . > woudshoo> > woudshoo> I

Re: [Monotone-devel] "prune-branch" cert implementation issues.

2005-06-05 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 17:53 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I'm attempting to give people a clean way to mark a revision as > "no-longer-a-head-for-branch-X". There are two use cases for a feature > like this one: > > 1) To ignore old branches which have subsequently been merged into the > mainline

[Monotone-devel] "prune-branch" cert implementation issues.

2005-06-05 Thread Michael Stone
I'm attempting to give people a clean way to mark a revision as "no-longer-a-head-for-branch-X". There are two use cases for a feature like this one: 1) To ignore old branches which have subsequently been merged into the mainline. 2) To mark revisions as unsuitable for merging. However, it is un

Re: [Monotone-devel] Workflow with Monotone

2005-06-05 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04 Jun 2005 22:08:56 +0200, Willem Rein Oudshoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: woudshoo> Now we plan using certificates heavily, for example: woudshoo> woudshoo> Version: 1.2.0.3 woudshoo> Build:machine xxx: passed|failed woudshoo> Build arguments: special co

[Monotone-devel] Re: Switching to monotone from CVS

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mark Hagger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been looking quite hard at various SCM's with a view to switching > from CVS. CVS is slowly, but surely, becoming less and less fitting for > our needs. > [...] how stable/reliable is monotone? You didn't write what these needs are exactly. I've fou