Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:22:11 +0100, Malte Thoma 
<address@hidden> said:

thoma> 1. Networking:
thoma> Why do you use an own network protocol at port 5253?

Because monotone has it's own protocol, and because that makes it
possible to run it as a completely standalone server with no
dependency with any other software.  More about it further down.

thoma> I wasn't able to open that service. Perhaps you can
thoma> a) describe how to do that

Uhmm, what do you mean?  Do you need to open it in a firewall or
something like that?  I'd turn to the manual of the hard- or software
that you need to adjust if I was you.

Or are you asking how to start a monotone server?  This is what
'monotone serve --help' tells me:

     serve ADDRESS[:PORTNUMBER] PATTERN ...
       listen on ADDRESS and serve the specified branches to connecting clients

There's a better description in the manual.

thoma> b) is that also possible, if don't have an root account (as it
thoma>    is the case)

Yes.  The monotone server can run on any account, including your own.
I use a dedicated account for my serving.

thoma> c) how can I use ssh instead of the 5253 port?

Not with the standard release, but you can use monotone to check out
the branch net.venge.monotone.ssh, which has such functionality
(there's been a lot of commits to it lately, so I've no idea how well
it works).

thoma> 2. cvs
thoma> Is it possible to export a monotone database to an cvs-Repository?
thoma> (I know, that Christof Petig has written some code for this)

Yes, in the branch net.venge.monotone.cvssync.  I've never used it
myself, so I've no clue how it works.

thoma> Is there a manual for this?

No.  Unless Christof wrote something lately.

thoma> As the decision has to come soon, I would be pleased if you
thoma> could answer soon, regards,

Was this soon enough?  :-)

Cheers,
Richard

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