[Monotone-devel] Re: Fwd: version control comparison

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

Corrected in the latest copy on http://better-scm.berlios.de/ . Thanks.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

On Monday 18 May 2009 15:26:12 Thomas Keller wrote:
> Hi Shlomi!
>
> Shlomi Fish schrieb:
> >> "Per-File Commit Messages"
> >>
> >> Its possible with so-called attributes to attach any kind of information
> >> to a single node (file or directory), however these attributes become
> >> part of the changeset and thus the revision. So changing things later on
> >> leads to new revisions obviously. One can, however, attach certificates
> >> at a later stage to any committed revision. Default certificates for a
> >> revision include the date, author, changelog and branch certificate.
> >
> > How does it differ from the current entry? ("Yes. It is possible to
> > attach a comment to a certain file at a certain revision.")
>
> It would be correct to say for monotone the same like for git:
>
> "No. Commit messages are per-changeset."
>
> monotone can, however, attach certain contents as "attributes" to files.
> This would then mimic "Per-File Commit Messages" (if these are used by
> anyone).
>
> >> "Web interface"
> >>
> >> There is ViewMTN (http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/) and a Trac plugin
> >> (http://tracmtn.1erlei.de/) available.
> >>
> >> "Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces."
> >>
> >> There are a couple of GUIs available, f.e. monotone-viz
> >> (http://oandrieu.nerim.net/monotone-viz/), an excellent repository
> >> browser, guitone (http://guitone.thomaskeller.biz), which can handle
> >> repositories as well as workspaces, and a relatively new Perl/GTK2-based
> >> frontend named mtn-browse (currently its only available in the
> >> repository under
> >> http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/all/branch/changes/net.venge.monotone.cont
> >>rib .mtn-browse)
> >>
> >> A complete list of tools is available under
> >> http://monotone.ca/wiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools/
> >
> > Updated.
>
> mtn-browse got a website in the meantime, while the development of
> guitone was abandoned. The former should be used as "best breed" GUI for
> now.
>
> Please also update the URL of the monotone project[1] to
> http://monotone.ca.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas.
>
> [0] http://www.coosoft.plus.com/software.html
> [1] http://better-scm.berlios.de/monotone/

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