Re: [Monotone-devel] Packet I/O howto

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:01:56PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> I have been playing with packet I/O, and found that the documentation
> gives commands for packet transfering, it doesn't say what exactly (and
> in what order) I should do to transfer revisions between databases. I
> found out, and thought I'd write this mini-howto for Monotone 0.26. I
> hope it's useful.

Thanks!  Would you be interested in adapting this to go in the manual?

> Also, if I may add something to the wishlist... Maybe it would be nice
> to have one single command for getting all packets from one revision?
> Something like:
> 
> mtn automate packets_for_revision ID

Seems useful.  Should it include certs or not?  (For mtn-dumb's use,
it should not, because mtn-dumb wants to get certs separately.  But it
would definitely make the get-files-and-revision stuff simpler.)

> $ mtn -d A automate graph|awk '{print $1;}'|xargs -- mtn -d A automate 
> toposort

$ mtn -d A automate select i: | mtn -d A automate toposort address@hidden

(Simpler, plus more reliable -- if there are enough revisions, xargs
may decide to run its command multiple times (because of OS command
line length limits), which would give incorrect results in the case of
toposort; the brain-onna-stick switch has no such limits.)

-- Nathaniel

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