Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How will policy branches work?

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Boris wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:07:44 +0200, Markus Schiltknecht 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > [...]Use multiple projects and let your developers only sync to the 
> > central
>
> If you mean with multiple projects multiple databases - yes, that's the 
> only solution I can think of currently.

...oops, I meant multiple branches. You don't need multiple databases, 
if you disallow your developers to sync with each other.

If you want them to be able to sync with each other, you will 
(currently) need to distribute the read-permissions for your branches 
manually.

Note, that monotone can already help you with that as well. Just put 
~/.monotone/read-permissions under it's version control and install some 
cronjob to update that regularly. Or use rsync or whatever comes to mind.

> That's not under my control. But again I'm not looking for a 100% secure 
> solution. I just don't want the VCS to do all the work for the bad guys. :)

Well, as a non-100% solution, you can tell the trusted developers *not* 
to sync with others, just via the central repository. Or why should that 
not be under your control?

> Ah, my understanding was that someone (Timothy?) is currently working on 
> _the_ (?) policy branch code.

Well, yeah, sure. At least on the thing he considers to be _the_ policy 
branch code. I didn't have a look, yet. Nor did I see anybody else 
comment on it. (Especially missing comments from those guys who were 
most actively debating policy branches at the summit and before...)

Regards

Markus