[Monotone-devel] Re: Pruning Question

[graydon hoare]

Paul Snively wrote:

> Say I have several unmerged heads, one of which represents the latest 
> fetch from off.net, the others of which represent commits I made to 
> previous versions of the tree and submitted as patches to Graydon. That 
> is, all the stuff I care about on those other heads is in one of the 
> heads, so I'd like to prune the irrelevant heads.
>
> Is there a straightforward way to do that?

well, you *could* remove them from your db, but it's probably easier to 
just say "monotone merge" and let it make sure all your changes made it 
into my head, and issue the appropriate ancestry edges.

that's how the system works: multiple heads develop naturally in the 
course of development, "merge" tries to reduce the number of heads or 
the divergence between them.

-graydon