Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki and monotone

[Václav Haisman]

Brian May wrote, On 11.10.2006 4:36:
>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Brian> Hello, Anyone considered adding monotone support to
>     Brian> ikiwiki?
> 
>     Brian> http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/
> 
> No response?
> 
> Nobody interested?
> 
> In case I am wrong, I did see this post:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2006-02/msg00145.html
> 
>     Brian> * How do you determine the creation date/time of a file? Or
>     Brian> the data/time of the first revision would probably be
>     Brian> sufficient too.
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 
> 1. base_id = `mtn automate get_base_revision_id`
> 2. output= `mtn get_roster $base_id`
> 3. birth_id= `scan $output for birth revision id for $file`
> 4. output= `mtn automate certs $birth_id`
> 5. scan output for date certificates.
> 6. decide what to do if multiple date certificates appear.
> 
> Steps 3 and 5 appear non-trivial and inefficient.
> 
> Maybe if I could replace the above with the following steps :
> 
> 1. base_id = `mtn automate get_base_revision_id`
> 2. birth_id= `mtn get_roster $base_id $file birth`
> 3. date=`mtn automate certs $birth_id date | head 1`
> 
> (I note mtn automate certs returns a signature "ok" field - does this
> mean it will list signatures that are not OK?)
> 
> Or is there a better way?

Just a thought, can't you exploit mtn attr set/get for that? Give a file an
attribute birth-date when you add it first time to the repo?

And taking this thought further, maybe monotone should attach this attribute,
and maybe more than just this one, to a file automatically when the file is
added to the repository.

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