Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: removal of packet functions

[John Bailey]

On 08/10/2010 11:01 AM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> What currently works is to manually collect relevant packets (revisions,
> files, certs) for explicitely given revs - that could be automated some
> more, but I think the consensus is to use patches instead (even if they
> lose some information) - they're much more approachable for humans.

It would be nice to have a way to send (or possibly even generate for manual
sending) a series of patches in a manner similar to what git and hg allow.  The
lack of this particular feature is one of the main complaints I hear about
monotone, behind database size and speed complaints.  In the view of those who
issue the complaints, it's unreasonable to expect the person to run a netsync
server for other people to pull from, and at least in Pidgin's case we have no
intention of opening a netsync server for writing by anyone.

I did once look at trying to implement this as a user command in lua a few
months ago, but it appeared to be more complicated than I was willing to deal
with writing myself.

John

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