Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] move unversioned files out of the way

[Stephen Leake]

"Nuno Lucas" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Stephen Leake
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there really a use case for "checkout into an exisiting workspace"?
>> I should think mtn would simply refuse to do that.
>
> I do this all the time.

I think we are talking about different things.

I'm talking about this:

cd foo
mtn --db .. checkout --branch foo

.. do some stuff ..

cd foo
mtn --db .. checkout --branch bar

> I have a different branch for application data and several derived
> branches of it for different purposes, like test and release data.
> In my source directory I usually have 2 or more of this data branches
> with different directory names and use an env var to switch between
> them at execution time.

This sounds like:

cd foo/proj_1
mtn --db .. checkout --branch proj_1
mtn --db .. checkout --branch proj_2

I do that all the time also.

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-- Stephe