Re: [Monotone-devel] Kicking around ideas

[Stephen Leake]

Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

>>> b) would make me having to rebuild the whole inventory tree in the
>>> GUI and thus loose the user's focus, which could be still in some
>>> completly different context.
>> 
>> I don't follow this. If by "focus" you mean the typical GUI notion of
>> "which window receives input events", I don't see why that would be
>> lost.
>
> Imagine an konqueror/explorer-like application with a folder tree on the
> left and a file list on the right. The tree on the left displays a
> certain state, i.e. shows all directories as expanded the user clicked.
> The file list on the right lists the contents of the _active_ folder on
> the left and may have a scroll offset and/or individual selection.
>
> Since the filesystem watcher updates to the model do happen
> autonomously, I want to ensure that these view states are preserved as
> greatly as possible, 

Ok. But that's the responsibility of the GUI, not monotone. That's
what the model/view/controller pattern is for.

> but this also means that I can only do very restrictive querying and
> updates to the underlying model.

Of course, you do have to work with the GUI you have. Minimizing the
updates for each run of monotone will make things simpler.

> I'm pretty confident that the current restricted output is ok for my
> application and doesn't harm any other existing implementation either ;)

Right; all of the test cases are all still passing.

>> The case where the user used "--bookkeeping-only" is odd, but I don't
>> think that should bother this tool.
>
> I don't think --bookkeep-only is our problem, more f.e. IDEs like
> Eclipse which may not be mtn-aware when they refactor / move code. 

Right.

> So you end up having absolutely no sync between the filesystem and
> the workspace manifest.

Right. I've added a mechanism in Emacs DVC for this; it allows the
user to identify the source and target rename files easily in the
display of the results of mtn automate inventory. Then DVC issues the
approprate mtn mv --bookkeep-only command to catch up.

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-- Stephe