Re: [Monotone-devel] Packets or Packet I/O no longer works?

[ml-monotone]

On 27 Apr, Will Robertson wrote:
> This may be a silly question, but I can't seem to find any info. on

It isn't silly at all ...

> the Mailing List about how to use Packet I/O to copy the contents
> (or changes since a certain date, etc) into a dump-file, such that
> you can take it via sneaker-net to another machine and upload to
> another Monotone repository.

I had exactly the same problem. Unfortunately the packet mechanism is
only rudimentary since introduction of the Netsync protocol.

You can still dumping a single revision, manifest, all certs of a
revision or a certain file using Monotones commands 

   certs fdata fdelta mdata mdelta rdata

> This is quite important to me, as I there's no way for me to access
> a netsync server from one of the repositories.

I have written a small Tcl module for accessing a Monotone repository
and a Tcl script using this module that enable me to dump the full (or
delta) contents using Packet I/O between to arbitrary revisions. I use
this to dump a certain state, sending that packets via email to home
and import it via 'read' into my second repository.

The script is not very sophisticated, but it works for me. Perhaps it
could be of any usage for you? I am currently thinking about wrapping
it into a Starkit (or Starpack) to make a standalone out of it.

Let me know, if you would like to try it out. But please do not expect
any warranty or comprehensive documentation ;-)


Ciao,
Clemens.

PS: Unfortunately, the re-importing repository needs to contain the
    whole history of the revision(s) you are importing via Packet I/O,
    as Monotone does not read-in any version, whose ancestor it
    doesn't already contain ... :-(

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