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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:57:24PM +1000, William Uther wrote:
> On 04/09/2007, at 6:51 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >Everyone has this problem, i.e., this is a bug in 'mtn up'.  Let's not
> >use extensibility as a way to plaster over problems in the core :-).
> 
> There was talk of adding a new option to sync before updating.  Not  
> sure that's a
> good solution.  A better solution would be to sync by default and  
> have an option
> to turn it off.
> 
> I'm not sure I like either of those.  I really think of them as two  
> separate commands - remote update and local update.

I think my preferred behavior would be:
  mtn update  -> like current 'mtn pull ; mtn update'
  mtn update -r <something>  -> no pull
  mtn update --local  -> no pull

I doubt it makes much difference whether we call it 'update-local' or
'update --local'.

The main concern people had was of plain 'mtn update' misbehaving when
people were offline -- hanging for a long timeout, blowing up, etc.
Not sure how much of a problem that would be in practice.  One way to
find out would be to just enable it and see who screams :-).

(Alternatively: use D-Bus to ask network-manager whether we're online
or not!  I bet this would actually work for a lot of people...)

-- Nathaniel

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