[Monotone-devel] Re: Scenario for tracking upstream package

[graydon hoare]

address@hidden wrote:

> Is this reasonable?  It would be nice to have a cookbook of some
> common scenarios like this.

yes, that sounds reasonable (the multiple copies of files will not take 
any extra space in your db, since they are identical content-wise). 
you're right that you will -- until the upstream uses a sufficiently 
fancy VC system which tracks such things -- need to infer deletes and 
renames yourself.

as you say, we ought to have more in the docs about using multiple 
branches, and doing distributed "staging areas", advanced uses of the 
tool. I hadn't thought of a good way to phrase such except as "extended 
tutorial", but I like your idea of calling this a "cookbook" quite a 
bit. there are several important "recipes" people might like to see. 
I'll add a "cookbook" chapter to the next release of the manual. thanks!

-graydon