Re: New branch name with no other changes
Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
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In message <[email protected]> on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:40:52 -0400, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> said: hendrik> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:38:36AM +0100, CooSoft Support wrote: hendrik> > Nuno Lucas wrote: [...] hendrik> > 1) Yes the documentation, which I think is very good btw, needs to make hendrik> > the alternate `mtn cert... mtn update' approach to branching much more hendrik> > obvious than it is now and why you might want to do it that way as hendrik> > against the mtn ci -b way. hendrik> hendrik> Yes, the documentation is probably an adequate place to solve this hendrik> problem. Possibly a note in the section on mtn approve, giving the hendrik> two-step process. Hmmm, people also need a way to find it... maybe a section like "Tricks and tips"... hendrik> > 2) Implement a global rc file mechanism, I read the comment about hendrik> > wrapping it in a script, yup that is a possibility (certainly for now). hendrik> > but most tools have the concept of global and user rc files. If this was hendrik> > done then interface extensions could more easily/practically be rolled hendrik> > out via the extras package. hendrik> hendrik> Careful with this. You can reasonably want such scripting by the user, hendrik> ny the project and system managers, by the Linux distribution, and by hendrik> the monotone developers themselves. User: covered (~/.monotone/monotonerc) Project manager: uhmmm, ideas? System manager: would need something like /etc/monotonerc Linux distribution: they aren't really different from system managers, and could easily create a /etc/monotonerc that includes a /etc/monotonerc.local, which can then be changed by the actual system manager. Linux distributions (oh, and I'm sure other Unix flavors do this as well) do this all the time (Debian is cluttered with such hacks, in a nice way). Monotone developers: covered (the built in std_hooks.lua). So, except for the project manager, all we really need to do is to support a global monotonerc. -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish