[Monotone-devel] Re: What's the plans for cvs_import?

[Derek Scherger]

graydon hoare wrote:
>  - I'm thinking of removing the concept of a collection altogether, and
>    just letting people serve branches. one less concept to think about for
>    the simple case. I'll probably include the possibility of serving a glob
>    (literally "net.venge.monotone.*") in order to retain the current
>    capability for clients to add branches on the fly.

The more I think about this the more I think I like it. It's not only conceptually 
somewhat simpler but it's also more powerful.

I can see times when it might be nice to pull just the main net.venge.monotone branch and 
if I try that now I'll get all branches in the collection even if I don't really want 
them. Essentially *you* (as the server maintainer) decide for me what I'll get, whereas 
with a globbing branch name syntax *I* could decide for myself what to pull. Similarly if 
I want to only push the main branch there's no way to do that at the moment and I may end 
up pushing branches when I might not want to.

I would assume net.venge.monotone.* would only include all of the branches *below* that 
and not net.venge.monotone itsself. Presumably I would have to use net.venge.monotone* (no 
dot) to include the main branch and all branches below it though.

BTW, if they don't already, the docs could use a word or two about the sqlite globbing 
syntax just to avoid confusion.

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Cheers,
Derek