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

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:18:32 -0700, "Steven E. 
Harris" <address@hidden> said:

seh> First, the question: How can one list the revision IDs within a
seh> monotone database without having a working copy of the tree
seh> available?

Getting a list of IDs, sorted in topological order (first to last):

MONOTONE='monotone --db={YOUR_DB}'
$MONOTONE automate heads {YOUR_BRANCH} | \
    $MONOTONE automate ancestors address@hidden | $MONOTONE automate toposort 
address@hidden

seh> Now, the motivating scenario. I have a small project that's
seh> accumulated a half dozen revisions. One of my coworkers prepares
seh> a databases, pulls my project over, and now has a database
seh> available with a copy of my work. She now wishes to check out a
seh> working copy of the tree to play with. She doesn't want to work
seh> on the latest revision, though; in fact, she wants the first
seh> revision available in the database.

You do the above and add the following at the end of the command
string:

    | head -1 | sed -e 's/^/-r /' | \
    $MONOTONE co -b {YOUR_BRANCH} address@hidden {YOUR_BRANCH}

You will end up with a directory with the same name as the branch.

The little sed trickery is to make sure that address@hidden injects '-r 
{revision}'.
Doing something like '-r address@hidden' doesn't work.

Cheers,
Richard

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