[Monotone-devel] mtn command, extension, and MIME type

2005-12-13 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello all, I am willing to bet that many folk on this list have created an alias for the eight-lettered `monotone' command. I could see it being useful for monotone to start shipping a short symlink to the `monotone' command. I use `mt' myself, although this conflicts with the old magnetic tape

[Monotone-devel] Win32 working copy update

2005-12-13 Thread Wouter van Kleunen
A problem with updating win32 working copy is that some directories can be in use while updating. Monotone will try to move these directories to some working directory but it fails, because the directory is in use. This is pretty bad, it can render your working copy useless. I had several times

[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn command, extension, and MIME type

2005-12-13 Thread Steven E. Harris
Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could see it being useful for monotone to start shipping a short symlink to the `monotone' command. I use a shell alias of mt, but do note that the bash completion magic doesn't work through this alias. Would a symlink fare any better? -- Steven E.

[Monotone-devel] Command aliases and removing command expansion from monotone

2005-12-13 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi list, While discussing the current behaviour of 'monotone revert' (see Alex's email about the possibility of losing work too easily) on #monotone, the idea of removing the automatic command expansion from monotone was discussed. monotone currently accepts commands in three ways: 1.

Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone revert

2005-12-13 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:24:18AM -0300, Alex Queiroz wrote: 'Monotone revert' without arguments reverts the whole directory. Isn't that dangerous? I like the subversion way that requires an explict dot: 'subversion revert .'. What do you think? So, we had a bunch of discussion of this

Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone revert

2005-12-13 Thread Justin Patrin
On 12/13/05, Nathaniel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:24:18AM -0300, Alex Queiroz wrote: 'Monotone revert' without arguments reverts the whole directory. Isn't that dangerous? I like the subversion way that requires an explict dot: 'subversion revert .'. What

Re: [Monotone-devel] Command aliases and removing command expansion from monotone

2005-12-13 Thread Chad Walstrom
Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While discussing the current behaviour of 'monotone revert' (see Alex's email about the possibility of losing work too easily) on #monotone, the idea of removing the automatic command expansion from monotone was discussed. What?! Why? 3. By guessing

Re: [Monotone-devel] Command aliases and removing command expansion from monotone

2005-12-13 Thread Chad Walstrom
Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aliases, on the other hand, are explicitly defined. This means that they're less likely to change tomorrow, and that any change that affected them is much more likely to be reflected in the documentation and the monotone release notes. Command

Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone revert

2005-12-13 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:32 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: [...] As was said before, I think that monotone revert . makes sense, . being the cwd, of course. monotone revert --all seems like an unneeded option (unless I'm missing that monotone revert reverts the entire working copy...). It

Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone revert

2005-12-13 Thread Justin Patrin
On 12/13/05, Timothy Brownawell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:32 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: [...] As was said before, I think that monotone revert . makes sense, . being the cwd, of course. monotone revert --all seems like an unneeded option (unless I'm missing that