Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [Monotone-commits-diffs] Revision c6569e455defcd6b0d889edcff0bb0fe6180a376

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:18:29AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> monotone>     (ALIAS(import,setup)): Add setup alias.
> 
> I violently disagree with that particular detail.  To me, importing is
> something very different from setting up a directory for use as a work
> directory.

Mm.  The problem is that the "setup" command's actual functionality is
much more like importing than like setting up a directory for use as a
work directory.

In paricular, the problem is that people keep thinking that if they
want to start working on an existing project, they should do "setup;
checkout".

It would be handy to have a "import" command that did the equivalent
of "setup && add .".  It would also be good to have another name for
"setup"; it keeps tripping people up and screwing up usability.
"new_project"?  "create_project"?

-- Nathaniel

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