Re: [Monotone-devel] Creating Branches & Building Monotone

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Logan Sackette wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using monotone since .14 without much
> trouble.  but I didn't setup a server under .15. 
> However, I have been unable to pull from a .16 server
> even though I have no problem using it locally.
>
> I pulled the monotone sources but couldn't find a
> "configure" file in the source tree.
>
> Secondly, I would like to know how to create a new
> branch  for something I have already committed. 
> Basically, I want to do this:
> %monotone --db=proj.db --branch=br1 co tmp
> %monotone --db=proj.db --branch=new_br commit '....'
>
> instead of:
> %monotone --db=proj.db --branch=br1 co tmp
> <some edits/add/drop/rename>
> %monotone --db=proj.db --branch=new_br commit '....'
>
> Thanks for you help and thanks for monotone.
>
> .v

Creating new branches in .15 is broken.  Normally you can just commit a new 
branch, but this does not work in .15.  It's fixed in 16, but there are other 
bugs, but it's much better than .15.  Not sure about your first issue, it may be 
that you can't pull/push between .16 and .15.

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