Re: [Monotone-devel] Commit without working copy

[Grzegorz Jakacki]

Nathan Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:24:43PM +0800, Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:
>
> > I would like a webserver to checkout/checkin files from/to monotone 
> > database without actually creating a working copy. Is that possible with 
> > current CLI? If not, then how much work it is to add it and where should 
> > I begin?
>
>
> The "packet" commands still work.  If you can deliver packets 
> extracted from the client database to your web server, it can add 
> them.  Presumably it would also need to extract packets from its 
> database and deliver them to the client to be added, which you might 
> do with a browser protocol handler.  I don't know what else the web 
> server end would need to do, besides occasional pruning.  The only 
> tricky part seems to be discovering what packets to extract and send, 
> something that I guess netsync negotiates.

Thanks for this explanation, however my problem lies elsewhere.
I am not trying to synchronize through webserver. This is what I am 
trying to:

When a webpage is requested, my webserver runs PHP script. I would like 
this script to run 'monotone cat' on database stored locally on 
webserver's host, capture the output and serve it as a webpage to web 
client. At this point user can manipulate the served content in its web 
client, and then send it back to the web server. The web server should 
in turn run monotone and commit the new version of the content to the 
monotone database (stored locally on webserver's host).

So basically I would like to get revisions in and out of monotone 
without creating a working copy.

BR
Grzegorz

> I'm assuming you can't open a port for netsync, and must work through
> port 80; and port 80 is already in use by a web server, so you can't
> just make netsync use it directly; and you also can't (for whatever 
> reason) set up an ssh tunnel.  Each of these alternatives seems easier,
> normally.  
>
> Nathan Myers
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