Re: Emacs and Monotone problems

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

xavier grave wrote:
>> Ok. One issue; the mtn branch is named 'dvc.main' (with a devel branch
>> of 'dvc.stephe'). I was planning to never distribute it, and short
names
>> are easier to deal with. Any objections?
> 
> Not for me.

Since every TLA is overloaded already, I'd prefer more explicit names such
as org.gnu.emacs.dvc{,.stephe}.  It is quite easy to rename a branch before
you publish it, i.e.

mtn db execute "UPDATE revision_certs SET value = 'org.gnu.emacs.dvc'
WHERE name='branch' AND value LIKE 'dvc.main%'"

> And if it's a problem for someone, he can always use a commit to rename
> as he prefer ?

No, once published and replicated across several databases, branch names
never disappear and must be universally unique; that's perhaps the biggest
problem with monotone.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.