[Monotone-devel] Tracking an "vendor branch"

[Kevin Greiner]

I've been lurking here for a couple of months. Given Microsoft's very
expensive pricing on their not-yet-released Team System development
revision control package, I decided to try & learn more about
monotone.

I am attempting to familiarize myself with monotone by tracking a
Visual SourceSafe repository. I think some version control systems call
this making a "vendor branch." My plan is synch MT and VSS at each
point release. I got as far as the following.

1. Copy the 3.0 source tree to a local working directory (say
"src") beneath a properly init'd MT directory and run the following
commands.

mt add src
mt --branch=com.bar.foo.ver3 commit --message="version 3.0"
mt tag 884f "Foo 3.0 release"

2. Now what? I have a copy of the 3.1 source tree but what do I do with
it? The manual (bottom of page 12) says that MT can't deduce file or
directory adds, deletes, or renames. But I'm really not interested in
manually determining which files were added or renamed between 3.0 and
3.1. I mean, there could be dozens of file changes. Surely there is a
better way!

Thanks in advance for your help,

Kevin