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[Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.)
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Peter Simons |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.) |
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18 Feb 2005 09:53:29 +0100 |
Graydon Hoare writes:
> - sometimes you want to be able to globally rename a
> branch. this is sort of possible-ish already, by just
> making a new branch and telling everyone to stop using
> the old one, then flushing the old one out of the db as
> required.
How do I flush the old branch out of the database as of now?
> but it's never likely to be globally possible because
> people might just ignore you.
I think we all agree that renaming a branch globally is
pretty much impossible unless everybody plays along in a
coordinated manner.
In my humble opinion, the ability to rename a branch in the
_local_ database is what is missing at the moment. I've
never needed a global rename; I've needed a local rename
dozens of times though.
> - sometimes you want "short names" like "main" or "dev"
> for your branches, but those are really between you and
> monotone. a UI thing.
I agree, that's a UI thing. Both aliases and smart command
line completion can help with that problem. An internal
alias database for Monotone sounds quite nice, but it's
nothing I have really _wanted_ in the past. Branch renaming
and deletion is much more important, IMHO.
> - sometimes you have a need to isolate two branches from
> one another even though they have the same name.
Well, I have never needed to do that, actually. I thought
a branch was a "merge obligation" in Monotone, and I am
quite comfortable with that "limitation". Having two
branches with the same name which are not the same branch
sounds more like a lot of confusion to me than anything
else. ;-)
Just my 0.02 Euros.
Peter
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Jeremy Fincher, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Jeremy Fincher, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches, Jeremy Fincher, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Christof Petig, 2005/02/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Christof Petig, 2005/02/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), graydon hoare, 2005/02/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.),
Peter Simons <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Nathaniel Smith, 2005/02/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2005/02/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Peter Simons, 2005/02/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.), Dean Kusler, 2005/02/18
Re: [Monotone-devel] Ideas and questions., jfincher, 2005/02/14