Re: [Monotone-devel] Branch Naming

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:28:04 -0600, "Matthew A. 
Nicholson" <address@hidden> said:

mnicholson> What ever became of the branch naming stuff?  Are we just
mnicholson> keeping what we currently have?  Reason I ask is
mnicholson> venge.net/monotone or monotone.venge.net/ssh or
mnicholson> venge.net/monotone/ssh makes more sence than what we
mnicholson> currently have.  I think I may write a patch that supports
mnicholson> branch names like this, all that would basically be needed
mnicholson> is to convert a name that contains a / into the format we
mnicholson> currently accept, of course this would cause problems
mnicholson> possibly for collection names and such or names like
mnicholson> monotone.venge.net...

I think there are other things that have much higher priority for the
moment, so you might want to arm yourself with a bit of patience.
That said, your particular syntax conflicts with the combined selector
syntax (see http://www.venge.net/monotone/docs/Selectors.html#Selectors).
Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what stops you from using branches with
your own structure.  If I'm not entirely off, monotone doesn't care
too much about branch syntax, except for a couple of places.  It's
possible that can be circumvented by hacking the expand_selector hook.

I haven't really looked at this, so there's quite a possibility that
I'm talking out of my ass...

Cheers,
Richard

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