Re: [Monotone-devel] Initially creating a branch without committing changes?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:48:52PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> But is _THIS_ really the intention behind the "mtn approve"?
> Interesting, I've always wondered what this command is about and
> especially why it is named "approve". Well, even if it is just for
> creating branches I'm still totally puzzled why it is named "approve"...

It dates back to the ur-days, when we were still sketching in the
design to try and match some ideas about how a VCS could match a more
review-based workflow.  It's probably not the right implementation for
something called "approve", but no-one's gotten around to fixing it
yet.

-- Nathaniel

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