[Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone and changesets

[Bruce Stephens]

Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> But in a more closed environment, one can probably imagine scenarios
> where history could be lost.  In that case, Arch degrades fairly
> well.

Some aspects do.  Some parts don't.  For example, "tla ancestry"
(which is a very nice piece of functionality, IMHO, and the kind of
thing that could be usefully added to other systems) tends to fail
rather too often.  That's probably an implementation issue rather than
a problem of the principle of the thing.

tla ancestry provides this kind of output (this is rather simple,
because this is an unusually simple branch, unfortunately):

% tla ancestry
address@hidden
  emacs--lexbind--0
    patch-76 ... base-0
  emacs--cvs-trunk--0
    patch-3 ... base-0
address@hidden
  emacs--cvs-trunk--0
    patch-139 ... base-0
address@hidden
  emacs--cvs-trunk--0
    patch-3 (???)
(???)