Re: [Monotone-devel] wishlist of an OE developer

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:30:30 +0100, Patrick Mauritz 
<address@hidden> said:

oxygene>     cherry picking
oxygene> adding changes of a revision to an unrelated tree, incl.
oxygene> renames, deletes, adds, ...

That's a tough one.  I think I talked about an idea called "weak edge"
or something like that, to store information about the origins of the
cherry.  Dunno what happened with that (nothing, I assume :-)).

oxygene>     proper local undo support
oxygene> "db kill_rev_locally sounds too scary". also needs to be able
oxygene> to delete entire subtrees of history.

Well, I think "undo" doesn't sound scary enough if it's supposed to do
the same as "kill_rev_locally".  Deleting an entire subtree sounds
like a practical idea, all we need is to figure out what happens when
there's a merge with something that's not part of the subtree...

oxygene>     log --local/--remote (or --to-pull/--to-push or whatever)
oxygene> A method to figure out the revisions that exist locally but
oxygene> not remote, or in the other direction, incl. their changelog.

Hmm, it sounds much easier to do if we add a --dry-run to push/pull/sync.
Showing the changelogs could be done with something like --show-log.

oxygene>     log dirname support
oxygene> monotone log directory doesn't seem to restrict the log
oxygene> output to the revisions that affect "directory"

That sounds comparatively easy :-).

no comment on the rest.

oxygene>     readable ids of some sort
oxygene> a known-hard problem..
oxygene> 
oxygene>     faster sync
oxygene> they still use 0.25, so 0.26 should already improve matters,
oxygene> with more improvements likely to come, so maybe this is good
oxygene> enough already.

Cheers,
Richard

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