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Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git
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Hendrik Boom |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:09:03 -0400 |
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:00:31AM -0700, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Planning to use monotone together with git. Monotone for day-to-day
> > activity, because it's a system I understand and trust. Git for posting
> > working versions on github or gitlab or some such.
> >
> > The obvious way to do this is to have one workspace that is used with
> > both git and monotone. git will be tld to ignore _MTN; monotone will be
> > told to ignore .git .
>
> I've done this with monotone and bazaar. It works, but is somewhat
> tedious, since you end up doing every commit twice (possibly grouped
> into larger commits for git, but still similar amount of work). I have
> some support for this in the Emacs DVC frontend - avalable from the
> ada-france monotone repository (see
> http://www.nongnu.org/ada-mode/ada-france-access.html for contact info).
>
> A better option with monotone and git is to export the monotone db to a
> git repository. I have not done this yet, but others have reported
> success. Search this mailing list archive.
That seems like a one-time activity, perhaps not what I want for an
ongoing development. Or is there something I need to know about that I
don't?
>
> --
> -- Stephe