Re: [Monotone-devel] thought on hierarchical branches

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:22:32PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:56:20 -0700, Nathaniel 
> Smith <address@hidden> said:
> 
> njs> etc., and that seems confusing when these are actually directories in
> njs> a filesystem.  So, I was leaning towards something more like svn
> njs>   trunk
> njs>   branch/foo
> njs> etc.
> 
> Yuck.
> 
> Honestly, I'm glad you didn't go there.  Even more honestly, I *love*
> the current (lack of) structure in monotone, where the branch
> hierarchy really only is a matter of naming convention.  If that can
> be kept, I'll keep addoring (sp?) monotone like I do today.

I'm not really sure why the freedom to choose your own punctuation is
a really important freedom :-).

Regardless, the current plan for making branch renaming, branch
metadata, delegated permissions, removing the global name requirement,
etc., all work, involves the scheme described on that wiki page --
which requires that branches have file-name-like names.  So you may
want to speak up about that :-).

-- Nathaniel

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