Re: [Monotone-devel] List revision IDs without a working copy?

[Justin Patrin]

On 7/28/05, Steven E. Harris <address@hidden> wrote:
> First, the question: How can one list the revision IDs within a
> monotone database without having a working copy of the tree available?
> 
> Now, the motivating scenario. I have a small project that's
> accumulated a half dozen revisions. One of my coworkers prepares a
> databases, pulls my project over, and now has a database available
> with a copy of my work. She now wishes to check out a working copy of
> the tree to play with. She doesn't want to work on the latest
> revision, though; in fact, she wants the first revision available in
> the database.
> 
> At first I thought this would be no problem. The "checkout" command
> respects a "revision" argument. But how can we inspect the set of
> available revisions? I've combed the command reference and can't
> figure out how to "log"-like action without first checking out a
> working copy -- albeit not the one we're actually looking to fetch. If
> the project had thousands of files, fetching that spurious scratch
> copy would be huge waste.
> 
> I don't mind the long hash strings as revision IDs. It's getting
> access to those IDs has me stumped.
> 

I'm not sure of the way to do this myself (probably something in
automate...there are a lot of hidden features in monotone) but you can
quite easily use viewmtn (web interface) or monotone-viz (GTK
interface) to view the revisions. monotone-viz is especially useful.

-- 
Justin Patrin