Re: [Monotone-devel] Questions about Monotone

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi all,

Ok, I finally got a chance to read about branches in Monotone. I just 
have one (possibly complex) question. I make a branch:

$ mtn commit --branch=org.foo.branch --message='Feature A'


From the documentation I get the impression that the original branch 
and the new branch for Feature A both reside in the *same* directory. 
The documentation doesn't say so explicitly, but when I see:


$ mtn ls branches
jp.co.juicebot.jb7
jp.co.juicebot.jb7.muffins
$ mtn heads
mtn: branch 'jp.co.juicebot.jb7.muffins' is currently merged:
4e48e2c9a3d2ca8a708cb0cc545700544efb5021 address@hidden 
2007-07-08T02:17:37
$ mtn suspend 4e48e2c9a3d2ca8a708cb0cc545700544efb5021
$ mtn ls branches
jp.co.juicebot.jb7


It looks like all the branches are in the same directory. Doesn't this 
get confusing? At any one time my directory would have some changes that 
belong in one branch and other changes that belong in a different 
branch. And this might be impossible to manage if the two branches 
require changes in the same file (which will often be the case for me).

Don't take me wrong, if you can make it work in the same directory, 
great. I don't want to be making a new directory and opening a new set 
of files every time my boss wants something changed. I just don't 
understand how it'd work in the same directory if I'm making changes to 
two branches at the same time (I might spend a couple of weeks on 
Feature A while I continue to make short term fixes to the main branch).

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Daniel.