Re: [Monotone-devel] Several questions

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:54:29AM -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
>"Michel Rasschaert" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> - Is it (or will it be) possible to fetch a partial image of a depot?
>
>well, it's possible to fetch a partial image (just fetch 'since' a
>nonzero sequence number), but you'll be fetching a partial image of a
>*transmission log*, not of the software tree. so that's of no real use
>unless you've got a working tree already.
>
>if you just want to "fix a bug", you can download a tarball and import
>that (monotone add *), then make your patch and mail it. since tree
>states are identified by content rather than any sort of inter-machine
>relationships, it'll appear to us just as if your patch were made in
>the depot, forked off the tarball version, and should 3-way merge with
>the current heads fine.

Correct me if I am wrong:

That would only be true if the tar-ball was a complete copy of all the
things in the depot. Since you get more files by checking out the
depot than by downloading the tar-ball this wouldn't be a totally smooth
road to take (for the person receiving your patch that is).

/M

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