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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:10:04PM -0800, Logan Sackette wrote:
> However, I have been unable to pull from a .16 server
> even though I have no problem using it locally.

What happens?  Can you give more details?

> I pulled the monotone sources but couldn't find a
> "configure" file in the source tree.

You need to run "autoreconf --install" to create the various
autogenerated files.

> 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 '....'

It might be helpful to add some UI here... maybe "commit" with no
changes, but with a new branch cert, should just cert the parent
revision as being on that branch?

-- Nathaniel

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