[Monotone-devel] sha1sum doesn't match revision number

[Todd A. Jacobs]

A while back, I'd asked about how to identify the revision which matched 
a file stored outside the repository. IIRC, one of the suggestions was 
to use sha1sum to get the hash and find the matching revision, but that 
doesn't appear to work. The file and the revision number always have 
different hashes, so I'm guessing that the internal hash in monotone 
isn't hashing *just* the file.

I'm trying to implement monotone at work for tracking revisions to 
server configuration files, and keeping a repository on each server 
isn't an acceptable option (e.g. I can't treat the configurations files 
as a monotone working copy). So, the problem arises of trying to 
determine which revision the file on a given server represents.

Like I said, I tried the sha1sum approach, without luck. I know there 
was a suggested pre-commit hook to add some value to the file under 
revision control at commit time, but with these configuration files, 
that's not really an option.

How are other people currently handling this sort of issue? Or is it 
just outside the scope of what monotone is currently designed to 
address?

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