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

[Bruce Stephens]

"B. J. Girard" <address@hidden> writes:

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> 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'?

There is: that's what checkout does.  So the command you wanted is:

monotone --db=~/etc/monotone/monotone.db --branch=net.venge.monotone checkout 
monotone-src

(It's possible for a branch to have multiple heads, in which case the
above will fail.)