Re: [Monotone-devel] YANQ (yet another newbie question)

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Ken MacDonald wrote:
> It's called ClearCase; it actually becomes your filesystem, with all
> access to files, directories, etc. pretty tightly controlled. In
> general you can't just move, rename, or delete files or directories
> without ClearCase's 'approval', so "do it and monotone will figure it
> out" is a fairly drastic change. I've also worked with CVS, PVCS, CMS,
> and a few others I've forgotten. No SVN (so far)!

Hm.. I don't know ClearCase. Can one get an evaluation version or 
something for that?

> c:\mtn_km\ .... all of my project directories are under this main directory
> c:\mtn_km\kippers\ ... my 'kippers' project
> c:\mtn_km\sardines\ ... my sardines project
> ...
> c:\mtn_fs\kippers\ ... fred's copy of 'kippers' project...
> ...
> c:\mtn_server\kippers\ ... "central" copy of 'kippers'
> ... etc.
>
> This would keep the top level of the disk structure a bit more
> manageable after more projects are generated.

Sounds good.

> Of course you're right there. The nomenclature of mtn is rather
> different than other VCS's I'm familiar with. In particular, I find
> "divergence" amusing, 

Heh, yeah, it's confusing for most people coming from a centralized VCS. 
But after a few automatic merges of diverged revisions, you'll just love 
it and never want to go back!

> Um, we're doing website development mostly with PHP, MySQL, Flash, and
> HTML/XHTML, so our 'projects' tend to be e-commerce or display sites
> for local or national businesses and community organizations.

Okay, good to know. Do you mind adding a link to your company in the 
wiki - we could probably use some more 'company coverage' here:
http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/ProjectsUsingMonotone

> At any time, we're engaged in active development or site updates for
> perhaps half a dozen of them. Some will probably migrate immediately
> into mtn, while others are fairly static, for instance we may just
> update their "upcoming artists" page once a month. In a case like
> that, we probably do not absolutely need a VCS, as we'll have only a
> single developer at a time making updates

Oh, I'm using monotone even for my very own projects. But I must admit 
that I'm somewhat fanatic about history and changelogs, etc... ;-)

Have fun with monotone!

Regards

Markus