Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Problems with _MTN/tmp

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:57:21AM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> Setting up views that work this way requires a particular pattern of
> config spec rules that I won't bother detailing here. Suffice it to
> say it's possible, and quite a pleasure to work with.

Hmm, my understanding is that different people have different
experiences here :-).

In any case, monotone very much aims for minimalness, and this sort of
thing is unquestionably a lot of extra stuff to document and for users
to hold in their heads.  Our goal is more to squeeze maximum
functionality out of minimum concepts, so, my question for you:

What does a config spec give you that just making a branch doesn't?
E.g., I can have a branch that only modifies a few files as compared
to its parent branch, I can see what files those are by doing a diff
against the latest branchpoint, and so on... is it more convenient
somehow, does it give you more features?  If you let us know, maybe we
can steal the ideas :-).

-- Nathaniel

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