[Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone-devel Digest, Vol 20, Issue 40

[B. J. Girard]

Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> wrote
> > > "B. J. Girard" <address@hidden> writes: 
> > > > > After following the instructions at
> > > > >      http://www.venge.net/monotone/self-hosting.html
> > > > > I typed:
> > > > >      monotone --db=~/etc/monotone/monotone.db
> > > > >      --branch=net.venge.monotone  checkout head monotone-src
> > > > >
> > > > > It gave me:
> > > > > monotone: expanding selection 'head'
> > > > > monotone: expanded to '2645f7a4b96489ad0d10a94d83da4420d86592c3'
> > > > >
> > > > > I would expect this to check out the head of branch "net.venge.monotone".
>
> (The combination of --branch=net.venge.monotone and the selector head
> appears to expand the same as the selector
> b:net.venge.monotone/b:head, and in this case that's unique.)
>
> In case it's not obvious, this behaviour seem very unlucky: almost
> always monotone prints out an error when you make an error.  You've
> just been unlucky.
>
> Also, the behaviour of not treating the --branch argument more
> literally seems wrong to me.  If I want a selector
> b:net.venge.monotone, then I think I ought to be able to just say that
> (and anywhere where I can't currently do that, maybe there should be
> another standard option --selector=).

Hmm, okay, so there's no command to automatically check out the head of 
a branch? I have to use 'monotone heads', get the revision id, then feed 
it to 'monotone checkout'?

Seems to me there should be a 'head' selector.

Anyroad, this newbie thanks you very much.

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B. J. Girard