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

[Chad Walstrom]

Richard Levitte wrote:
> See 
> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=CVS--Concurrent_Versions_System_ 
> v1.12.12.1:_Tracking_third-party_sources

I think you could get much the same thing by simply proving the BRANCH 
for the vendor when you commit the upstream sources.

> OK, that's an opinion.  I still maintain that a command the just adds a 
> MT directory with contents to the designated directory will confuse most 
> of the world (and particularly those who went in CVS school, which 
> should be quite a lot of people).

I actually found it quite refreshing to simply go to an existing project 
directory, type "monotone -d $DATABASE setup", "monotone ls 
unknown|xargs -r monotone add", and "monotone -b BRANCH commit".

I think by "most of the world", you mean "CVS-users of the world".  Most 
people of the world would walk through the tutorial to find out how to 
use the tool and realize that there are multiple steps.  Most people of 
the world would probably compare the tutorials of a couple SCM's and 
realize that most of them use a multiple-step process to "import" new 
source.

It maybe a few steps, but it's not rocket science.  If you really want 
to mirror the "import" step, add the "vendor tag" and "release tag".

Chad