Re: [Monotone-devel] UI to push/pull/sync

[Dan Ginsberg]

>From a UI standpoint, it sounds like all of this takes what most
people need to do ( sync collections ) and made it more complex to do
so.   When monotone syncs on a regexep, do you still have a clear
audit trail in the logs?   Guess I need to play with the new code....

dan

On 6/21/05, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Currently, on mainline, push/pull/sync have been changed to take a
> regular expression instead of a collection -- collections don't exist
> anymore.  Functionally, this is great; UI-wise, I'm wondering how cool
> it really is to be typing "net\.venge\.monotone(|\..*)" or whatever?
> Would it be better to have a UI that took any number of globs, and
> used those?  So like:
>   $ monotone pull net.venge.monotone net.venge.monotone.*
> would be equivalent to the above regexp; and
>   $ monotone pull net.venge.monotone*
> would be equivalent to the current net.venge.monotone collection?
> 
> Maybe with a --regexp switch that switches it over to being
> interpreted as a regexp, for the cases when you want that?
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
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