Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Uhmmm, can't commit????

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:47:58AM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> I noticed one change that I'd like to see reversed though:
> When you are inside a checked-out repository and want to
> check out a different branch as a subdirectory, then you
> could just write
> 
>   monotone --branch=other co foo
> 
> and Monotone would automatically find the --db argument from
> the current MT/options file. The new version doesn't do that
> anymore, though, it requires the database to be specified
> again. This is unfortunate in the case where you'd like to

Oh, because checkout declines to read this file now.  That is a bit
annoying; I've even been known to do no-branch branch-based checkout,
i.e. just write
  monotone co ../src2
to get a clean copy of the source tree I'm working on... Derek, any
thoughts?

-- Nathaniel

-- 
Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to
see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould