Re: [Monotone-devel] interoperating with git

[Stephen Leake]

Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:

> 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? 

It's ongoing; you can update the git repository with new commits from
the monotone db.



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