Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone update overwrites local changes

[Emile Snyder]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:21, Derek Scherger wrote:
> it seems to me that there are three settings for such a hook
> 
> - fail on pre-existing files
>   (cvs, svn, etc. do this)
> 
> - preserve pre-existing files but continue
>   (which I think would be useful occasionally)
> 
> - clobber pre-existing files
>   (what monotone does now)

I'd like door number 4: move pre-existing files out of the way (foo ->
foo.bak.revid maybe?) and continue.

thanks,
-emile

> fail and clobber seem like the extremes and preserve seems like it might
> actually be a nice compromise.
> 
> Cheers,
> Derek
> 
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