Re: [Monotone-devel] checkout: misuse: branch "jp.co.juicbot.jp7" is empty

[Thomas Keller]

address@hidden wrote:
>   The following was done by abe.
>         To get the file from jim.
>                 abe>$ mtn.exe --db=abe.mtn --branch=jp.co.juicebot.jb7
> checkout
>                 mtn: misuse: branch 'jp.co.juicebot.jp7*' is empty

Before Abe can do a checkout to get Jim's changes, Abe needs to pull the 
changes from Jim. For this to work Jim needs to "serve" the data first 
and put up a permissions file to allow others (what and whom) to read 
from his database.

On Jim's PC you allow read rights for all and everything by doing:

jim$ cat > ~/.monotone/read-permissions
pattern "*"
allow "*"
CTRL+D

Now, you can start the serve process on Jim's side

jim$ mtn --db jim.mtn serve "*"
....

And, assuming no firewall or weird net setup holds you, Abe should be 
able to connect to Jim and pull his changes:

abe$ mtn pull --db abe.mtn <jims_ip_or_dns> "*"
...

Now, Abe should be able to checkout Jim's branch:

abe$ mtn --db abe.mtn checkout -b "jp.co.juicebot.jp7*"


All this is typed out of my head, so typos / errors in the above stuff 
may be included, beware =)

Thomas.