Re: [Monotone-devel] Approval revisited...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:25:27 +1100, Daniel Carosone 
<address@hidden> said:

dan> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:39:02PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 
wrote:
dan> > Yeah, the only problem, as far as I see it, is that approve takes
dan> > --branch, so for example, I could very easily say something like:
dan> > 
dan> > monotone approve --branch=net.venge.monotone.approved.linux \
dan> >  6e87084a87413eed2c31100054ff8d5045f0be4d
dan> > 
dan> > If that gets repeated a few, do you know what kind of graph that
dan> > branch (which I invented on the spot) would have?  
dan> 
dan> There's nothing whatsoever intrinsically wrong with a
dan> disconnected branch, so long as the users of that branch have
dan> appropriate expectations.

I did a little bit of experiment, and found out that I had
misunderstood what the heads of a branch with a disconnected graph
would be.  That was basically my worry with this scheme.

My mantra for the night: experiment a little first, ask questions later.

Cheers,
Richard

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