[Monotone-devel] Re: usher

[Zbynek Winkler]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

> In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:03:45 +0200, Zbynek Winkler 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> zwin> Could someone enlighten me about the new "usher code"? What is
> zwin> it? I also remember reading about some "roasters"...?
>
> usher is basically an umbrella process that routes incoming netsync
> requests to the correct monotone server process.  This is good to use
> if you want to serve more than one database from the same machine
> instead of having everything in the same database.
>  
Oh! That is a big step towards using monotone on a multiuser machine. 
Why isn't such a great thing more promoted? I've found it mentioned only 
deep down the changelog, no wonder I've missed it :(

Is the some documentation about how to use it?

Thanks.
Zbynek

PS. Why is it called usher?

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