Re: [Monotone-devel] new branch expansion hook

[Derek Scherger]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:14:31AM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Agreed on the set part.
> 
> Re: suspend certs, does leaving out suspended branches mean that it is
> impossible to name those branches, even explicitly?  Taking branches
> out of the 'ls branches' clutter is one thing, making it impossible to
> check them out by name at all seems problematic...

In theory it should honor the --ignore-suspend-certs option so that
shouldn't be a problem. I'm wondering what it'll do when you go to
create a new branch that it can't find though and also what it might do
with a fully qualified branch. This will depend on the hook
implementation somewhat but returning an empty set will cause it to fail
at the moment.

> I don't understand.  Presumably it would be up to the hook whether it
> interprets the pattern as a glob or not?

Yeah, just the type of the "pattern" parameter in the lua hook's C++
interface is "branch_name" rather than "globish" and I'm not sure if
this would fail in ATOMIC's verify somewhere in some cases.

Really, I just finally got fed up with typing in long branch names all
the time and decided I should do something about it.

Cheers,
Derek