[Monotone-devel] Newbie questions

[Robert Leftwich]

I have just started using Monotone and I have a question or two. Firstly, it is 
not as easy as I would hope to detect when new files are created and are not yet 
under version control, i.e. monotone status does not list them, I need to use 
list unknown - requiring at least two operations to get the full picture. A VCS 
that does not list new or deleted files in its main status command seems 
somewhat counter intuitive to me or is this a fundamental mind shift I need to make?

Secondly, maybe I'm abusing Monotone a little, but in one project I have a very 
large number of generated graphs that I don't need to include under version 
control, so I've added that directory name regex to the ignore_file() function 
in .monotonerc. While this works as expected, in normal operation it slows 
things down dramatically, especially when checking for newly created files, but 
it impacts almost every operation. Is there an alternative set-up or some 
command switch or function I can use to get Monotone to truly ignore the graph 
directories rather than traversing them each time? Note that I've tried symbolic 
links but Monotone appears to follow those as well.

Robert