Re: [Monotone-devel] Tracking an "vendor branch"

[Jon Bright]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Hmm, I'd normally suggest replacing the working copy with the 3.1
> source tree, then doing 
>   $ monotone ls unknown | xargs monotone add
>   $ monotone ls missing | xargs monotone drop
> but you may not have "xargs" available on Win32.  The next release of
> monotone will let you say "--xargs=-" in this situation to get the
> same effect, but 0.17 doesn't have that.  I dunno a better way to
> script things on Win32.

Installing MinGW or Cygwin would be one option.  Another would be:

C:\workingdir> for %a in (monotone ls unknown) do monotone add %a
C:\workingdir> for %a in (monotone ls missing) do monotone drop %a

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