Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie: Life after cvs-import

[Thomas Keller]

Kelly F. Hickel schrieb:
> 3) Is there any way to determine the cvs revision number from monotone
> after the import?  E.g. I'm looking at something in monotone, and I need
> to refer back to the change in my archived cvs repo, just to sanity
> check it.  It would be nice if cvs-import added some kind of info cert
> specifying the cvs revision number, since it is available at cvs-import
> time.

There has been some work done in this direction, which has not found its 
way into mainline yet. Generally its done by file attributes rather than 
revision certs, since in CVS each file can have a different revision 
number and there are no changeset identifiers per sé (in CVSNT there are 
commitids, but this is a different story).

> 4) We're used to using bonsai and viewvc.  I don't believe that either
> of these could be made to work with mtn because I believe they both
> require a dotted-style revision number.  So, I've been looking at
> viewmtn, and I don't see an easy way to do some of the things that we
> did in bonsai/viewvc.  For instance, I'd often find myself using bonsai
> to see who committed changes in the last few hours (on any branch), I
> don't see a way to do that. The Selector syntax in the command line tool
> seems pretty powerful, but I don't see a way to do that with viewmtn.

You may also consider TracMtn, a Trac plugin for monotone, which has a 
nice timeline view (http://tracmtn.thomaskeller.biz/trac/timeline) - 
obviously this could need some improvements (i.e. the display what 
branch has been affected by a changeset), but TracMtn is already my 
favorite in terms of speed and usability.

Thomas.

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