[Monotone-devel] new to monotone

[Howard Spindel]

Hello,

I've been using monotone for about a month.  I have a one-person project, 
so primarily I just wanted something to track history and allow me to 
recreate old releases if I had to.  So far, I like monotone.

Couple questions, and I apologize if they are newbie stuff:

1.  I installed monotone 0.20 originally.  I saw no problems with 
it.  Yesterday I tried upgrading to monotone 0.22.  After the upgrade, the 
diff function no longer works - I get the Windows popup box that says the 
program attempted an illegal operation and must be terminated.  Yes, I did 
the db migrate, and other functions besides diff worked fine.  I downgraded 
to 0.20 and diff works again.  System is WinXP.  I installed from the 
available Win installer - I didn't build monotone myself.  Known 
problem?  Workarounds?

2.  I'd like to set up some offsite backup.  If I were to ftp my monotone 
database files to my ISP, is my data safe?  That is, is the database 
encrypted?  Would it work better if I somehow was able to use monotone's 
replication features to keep a remote database in sync?  If that means my 
ISP would have to open a hole in its firewall, I doubt if they would do 
that.  Suggestions?

3.  Do you guys have any shortcut ways to compare a working copy to the 
most recent previous version in the database?  monotone diff doesn't do it, 
because the working copy is checked in.  I want to compare against the 
version previous to the most recent check-in.  I can do it by finding the 
right hash key, but that's a bit clumsy.  Is there a way to tag a certain 
revision with a human friendly label, so for example, I could diff all 
changes since the last customer release without finding the right hash 
key?  I did read the manual and tutorial looking for these features, but if 
they are there I missed them.

Thanks very much,
Howard