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Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:22:41 -0700 |
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Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:00:31AM -0700, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Planning to use monotone together with git. Monotone for day-to-day
>> > activity, because it's a system I understand and trust. Git for posting
>> > working versions on github or gitlab or some such.
>> >
>> > The obvious way to do this is to have one workspace that is used with
>> > both git and monotone. git will be tld to ignore _MTN; monotone will be
>> > told to ignore .git .
>>
>> I've done this with monotone and bazaar. It works, but is somewhat
>> tedious, since you end up doing every commit twice (possibly grouped
>> into larger commits for git, but still similar amount of work). I have
>> some support for this in the Emacs DVC frontend - avalable from the
>> ada-france monotone repository (see
>> http://www.nongnu.org/ada-mode/ada-france-access.html for contact info).
>>
>> A better option with monotone and git is to export the monotone db to a
>> git repository. I have not done this yet, but others have reported
>> success. Search this mailing list archive.
>
> That seems like a one-time activity, perhaps not what I want for an
> ongoing development. Or is there something I need to know about that I
> don't?
It's ongoing; you can update the git repository with new commits from
the monotone db.
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-- Stephe