Re: [Monotone-devel] case insensitive file names

[Stephen Leake]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:43:40AM -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> My actual use case was this: if I have a workspace that is nominally
>> at the head of branch 'main', and I start messing around, then realize
>> I really should be working on branch 'experimental', I want to do:
>> 
>> mtn "just switch to experimental, and don't bother me!"
>> 
>> which is approximated by:
>> 
>> mtn ls --missing > files_i_deleted.log
>> mtn revert --missing
>> mtn update --branch experimental
>> some_painful_shell_script.sh files_i_deleted.log
>> 
>> I'd rather just do 'mtn update --branch experimental' :).
>
> I'm not sure I follow what you want, but it sounds like
>  mtn drop --missing
>  mtn update -r h:experimental
> should do it?  

You are right. I was somehow thinking that 'mtn drop --missing' would
influence the main branch; but 'mtn commit' is not needed here.

I guess I'm still transitioning from 15 years of CVS usage :(.

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