[Monotone-devel] Interoperating with upstream open-source projects

[Shaun Jackman]

Hello,

I have a few feature suggestions to aid working with upstream
open-source projects. I'm quite new to monotone, so if I can
accomplish any of this using some combination of current features,
please point me toward the light!

Is it possible to attach a name to an e-mail address in a key? For
example, I tried...
$ monotone --db=.mt genkey 'Shaun Jackman <address@hidden>'
monotone: misuse: error converting 23 UTF-8 bytes to IDNA ACE: non-LDH
characters
... with no luck.

Could monotone generate a log in ChangeLog format? For example...
$ monotone changelog # (or perhaps even ChangeLog)
2005-04-13  Shaun Jackman  <address@hidden>

        * hello.c: New file.

... where the string "* hello.c: New file." is the verbatim --message
text. Although it would be great if the log message editor
automatically generated a template in ChangeLog format.

I'm often working on two or three unrelated patches for a single
project at one time. I'll post each of the patches to the project's
mailing list at the end of one day, and then based on feedback, make
further revisions to the patches the next day. I then resubmit the
patches in their entirety to the project's mailing list. The trick is
that I need to associate the changes I make in the second day to one
of those patches. I then pull all the diff hunks associated with a
specific patch and send them upstream along with their ChangeLog
entries. It's also likely that these unrelated patches will be working
in the same file. I expect this will use branches somehow, but I
haven't figured it out yet.

One final thing. What's the selector for an empty file, and what's the
selector for the current merged head? I'm looking for something that
looks like monotone diff -r empty -r head hello.c.

monotone looks like a great package! Thanks for your work.

Cheers,
Shaun