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Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone update overwrites local changes
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Emile Snyder |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone update overwrites local changes |
Date: |
16 May 2005 10:57:04 -0700 |
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:21, Derek Scherger wrote:
> it seems to me that there are three settings for such a hook
>
> - fail on pre-existing files
> (cvs, svn, etc. do this)
>
> - preserve pre-existing files but continue
> (which I think would be useful occasionally)
>
> - clobber pre-existing files
> (what monotone does now)
I'd like door number 4: move pre-existing files out of the way (foo ->
foo.bak.revid maybe?) and continue.
thanks,
-emile
> fail and clobber seem like the extremes and preserve seems like it might
> actually be a nice compromise.
>
> Cheers,
> Derek
>
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