Re: [Monotone-devel] Subdirectory support

[Adam Logghe]

hmmm... I can see this being a semi-common scenario, Monotone itself
might use this capability.

However, how would you add the syntax so as not to complexify the nicely
simple Monotone commands of today? I'm an Arch refugee so I tend to
value Monotone for that simplicity.

Further- wouldn't your problem be more simply solved by using basic
shell scripting? I would think one of the only operations you want to do
"all at once" would be something like a checkout. Most other operations
would get unmanageable if you were doing them all at once ie merges etc.
Commits generally deserve individual comments (and consideration) for
another example.

The way I would approach it (I'm not needing this myself right now so
take with a grain of salt) would be to create a dependent project shell
script that I version controlled in the master project. I assume the
script could be as simple as a series of "cd blah/" and "monotone
checkout blah"? Maybe some file copies and symlinking to prep them?

You would then be left with a two step checkout ie master project and
then run the dependencies checkout script.

Adam


Matt Johnston wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've been playing wih Monotone over the past week, having previously used
> CVS, and it looks quite promising. I've got a project which has a couple
> of external packages I'm tracking, in subdirectories to my main source
> tree. I've tried the approach suggested by "jplejacq" in
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2004-03/msg00007.html
> (seperate branches, and propagating changes between branches), and that
> works quite well.
>
> The only problem is, to get a full "source tree" for my project, I 
need to
> do a checkout for the main project, then a checkout for each of the
> external packages. Has anyone found a good way to store project structure
> where it contains multiple different branches? I think quite a few
> projects could use a structure like this, so general support in Monotone
> might be useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
>
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