Re: Re: [Monotone-devel] net.venge.monotone.workspace-merge.migration ready for review

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:27:13PM +0100, Daniel THOMPSON wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > I know it's handy having _MTN/revision be usable for shell scripts...
> > maybe we should keep _MTN/revision as it is for now, but as a totally
> > cosmetic file (i.e., monotone writes it, but never reads it), and
> 
> I don't know about anyone else but I find the facility to alter the
> revision very helpful.

Oh, we'd still _store_ it in _MTN, it just wouldn't be _MTN/revision
that you'd want to edit anymore.  (If you're intent on voiding your
lack of warranty, etc.)

You'd just have to open the file that said something like:

-------------------------------------
format_version "1"

new_manifest [b093271ee0cd01a64ce9d9dac7f18a26c51cde71]

old_revision [948ef03159eb7837d98c69921fffa0efee460f64]

add_dir "foo"
-------------------------------------

and edit the "old_revision" line.

-- Nathaniel

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