Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git

[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:00:31AM -0700, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Planning to use monotone together with git.  Monotone for day-to-day 
> > activity, because it's a system I understand and trust.  Git for posting 
> > working versions on github or gitlab or some such.
> >
> > The obvious way to do this is to have one workspace that is used with 
> > both git and monotone.  git will be tld to ignore _MTN; monotone will be 
> > told to ignore .git .
> 
> I've done this with monotone and bazaar. It works, but is somewhat
> tedious, since you end up doing every commit twice (possibly grouped
> into larger commits for git, but still similar amount of work). I have
> some support for this in the Emacs DVC frontend - avalable from the
> ada-france monotone repository (see
> http://www.nongnu.org/ada-mode/ada-france-access.html for contact info).
> 
> A better option with monotone and git is to export the monotone db to a
> git repository. I have not done this yet, but others have reported
> success. Search this mailing list archive.

That seems like a one-time activity, perhaps not what I want for an 
ongoing development.  Or is there something I need to know about that I 
don't? 

> 
> -- 
> -- Stephe