Re: RFC: mtn split (Was: [Monotone-devel] Best practice using monotone)

[Hugo Cornelis]

On 8/24/06, Justin Patrin <address@hidden> wrote:
> My point was: How would monotone know how to do such a thing? All of

I was just thinking of the same type of interface as the merge
interface, ie. with external tools.  I have no clue how to do it, but
I just think it is an important work flow.


Hugo


> your changes were checked in as the same revision. Monotone has no way
> of knowing which of these changes you want to split into different
> revisions. It can't just choose changes in each file as a different
> revision as:
> 1) Checkins in multiple files can be part of the same fix
> 2) Multiple changes in one file may be parts of different fixes
>
> So the only way to split it would be to manually revert the changes
> for all but one fix and then check this in (or to check out the parent
> rev of the rev you're talking about, then using pluck to pull the
> changes from the rev you want to split, then reverting the changes for
> all but one fix. This would be the "right" thing to do.)
>
> --
> Justin Patrin


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