Re: [Monotone-devel] 0.48 rants

[Thomas Keller]

Am 19.07.10 06:39, schrieb Derek Scherger:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>> So we _could_ extend the commit editor to do this, by providing fields
>>> that are the file args (allowing Unix shell wildcards would be best) and
>>> the --exclude arg.
>>
>> If somebody would work on that, I'd rather let the user directly change
>> the changeset in the editor, but not the possible command line
>> restrictions which led to the changeset.
>>
> 
> I agree with your concern here the idea of only removing more things from
> the changeset in the editor and even then I'm not sure it would be a good
> thing. You could presumably still create invalid changesets by removing the
> addition of a required parent directory, or by removing a rename operation
> and including an addition that was predicated on the removed rename.
> 
> For the moment I'd like to settle on a more acceptable format (or less
> offensive depending on your perspective) that can hopefully maintain the
> ability to edit things and keep the formats as similar as possible.

Of course, this is nothing we absolutely want / need for 0.99 - just a
"feature request" for some later version, as I think there are more
important things to consider in the meantime.

Thomas.

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