Re: [Monotone-devel] Modifying monotone

[Bryan Woods]

On May 1, 2005, at 9:19 am, Jon Bright wrote:

> Bryan Woods wrote:
> >     How difficult would it be to convince monotone to function 
> > without a working copy?
> > I need to manipulate the repository directly. All state (read: 
> > "files") are stored in the application until commited.
>
> It's perhaps not the most graceful solution, but would it be worth 
> considering having the application create (or update) a working copy 
> before calling monotone?

That's one of the things I'm considering. It would require partitioning 
the data so I can create working copies of subsets of the data as 
needed. Branches could be abused to accomplish this. I think that that 
will cause other problems though.