Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Feature request: monotone grep

[Marcel van der Boom]

On 8 nov 2005, at 19:34, Bruce Stephens wrote:

> > Perhaps there should be a standard way for monotone to call out to
> > helper scripts, where `monotone grep', for example calls out to the
> > script `monotone-grep' -- in /usr/share/monotone/bin or the path if
> > that fails -- with all the necessary information provided on the
> > command line and in the environment.
>
> That idea came up before, and didn't get much support, IIRC.  I think
> a problem is that everyone's monotone could be different, so it's
> difficult to document and support, and there's the potential of
> clashing command names and things.

I posted that idea a while ago. The most important application for  
such a construct for us is having scripts distributed to the people  
in our project. (like inside the repo, inside MT dir would be  
perfect) So they can be rev controlled and maintained alongside the  
actual project code.

We've come from a bk setup, in which we implemented a similar feature  
we called 'custom commands' where we needed one config change so bk  
would look in a configured directory *inside* the repository for  
custom commands. What typically went into those custom directory were  
short shell script with a sequence of commands to create a very  
specific piece of repository info. Having them inside the repo made  
our life a whole lot easier than having to manage them separately.
If you can count on someone who has a working dir to also have a set  
of scripts a lot of things get a lot easier to deploy. (for us at least)

Obviously there are some risks for clashes and dealing with the fact  
that everyones monotone is different. I think, if you limit the  
responsibility of monotone to (configurably) spawn control to  
something else, in practice most repository managers can set up a  
system to their likings.

So, I'm still very much in favour of this, wether through a lua  
construct (like .mt-ignore) or otherwise.

marcel

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