Re: [Monotone-devel] Keeping track of only two files from another branch/database

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:23 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I think Monotone's sanity.{hh,cc} is a great idea, and I'd like
> to use them in my project. However, I was wondering if there is
> an easy, automated way to do that, since both net.venge.monotone
> and info.aleph0.apso (my project) use Monotone.
> 
> What I'll probably do is to copy the files from one workspace to the
> other and commit them into info.aleph0.apso. But then I won't get
> updates/etc when someone commits changes to net.venge.monotone.
> 
> However, I wouldn't want to check out the entire Monotone source
> tree and keep track of it.
> 
> Is there a cleaner way of doing this with Monotone?

We don't have a really good way of doing that. About the only way to do
this so you do get updates is to merge_into_dir the monotone tree into
your project, and then probably drop all the files you're not interested
in. This mostly works, but (1) will add a large amount of history that
you probably don't really want, and (2) will from time-to-time give you
orphaned node conflicts if you went with dropping the parts you don't
want.

-- 
Timothy

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