Re: [Monotone-devel] [from svn list] Case study: Mono switches to Subversion

[Derek Scherger]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Considering the stubornness of some people in the GNOME project (as I
> understand it from the message you point at), monotone would probably
> not go at all, primarly because there's no 'blame'/'annotate' and

graydon seems to consider annotate somewhat important:

        http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=7896

> secondly because there's absolutely no support for committing single
> files unless you want to make the effort to commit between every

the code on the net.venge.monotone.restrictions branch does allow for 
commiting selected files so once that gets merged (hopefully without too 
much trouble) this will be possible. I *really* hope that people don't 
use this to commit every changed file individually as a matter of 
practice though!

> However, it may be that monotone's off-line features are cool enough
> for people to get their act together to change their habits.  It
> certainly did for me.

hear hear!

Cheers,
Derek