Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua)

[Thomas Moschny]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > I also added automate versions of the following normal commands:  
> > push, pull, sync, merge, update and commit.  These are currently not  
> > very 'automate' friendly in that they still output everything to  
> > standard out.  They work for this purpose though.
>
> The requirement for landing a new automate command in mainline is that
> the semantics (what it does) and interface (how you tell it what to do
> and how it tells you what its done) must be fully documented and
> tested.  Also, we should be willing to keep those semantics and
> interface fixed going forward.  Having automate access to the
> functionality you mention would indeed be nice; you can decide what
> the easiest way to get commands that expose that functionality and
> meet the bar for automate inclusion is.

Ahem. These are already landed on mainline. The negative effect of using 
cout / stdout is that they don't work properly over automate stdio...

- Thomas

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