Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 02:48:51PM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote: > On 08/16/2013 10:18 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: > > You could do it manually with the following steps: > > > > - generate a diff file containing the changeset. > > > > - propagate from local to main > > Remember that this a) reveals y

Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-19 Thread Markus Wanner
On 08/16/2013 10:18 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: > You could do it manually with the following steps: > > - generate a diff file containing the changeset. > > - propagate from local to main Remember that this a) reveals your local changes and b) screws up history (i.e. logs and annotate). I usually

Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-16 Thread Stephen Leake
Hendrik Boom writes: > Is there any way to mark this one changeset so that it will never be > merged into the main branch? This is not possible with the current monotone. It has come up in other contexts; the Emacs developers would like the capability. (If we implement it, they just might swi

Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-15 Thread Markus Wanner
On 08/15/2013 02:52 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Well, this is more or less what I considered, but local-devel isn't all > that easy to do without the local-adjust being applied during testing. > And as for editing in the local-adjust during testing and editing it > out befure commit, well, that's b

Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote: > On 08/15/2013 02:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > II sometimes have to adapt a package to local conditions -- the most > > common kind of change is a configuration changem such as specifying where > > it is to be installed. > > > > N

Re: [Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-15 Thread Markus Wanner
On 08/15/2013 02:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > II sometimes have to adapt a package to local conditions -- the most > common kind of change is a configuration changem such as specifying where > it is to be installed. > > Now the obvious (and possibly wrong) is to make a local branch, make this >

[Monotone-devel] Forbid a changeset from merging

2013-08-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
II sometimes have to adapt a package to local conditions -- the most common kind of change is a configuration changem such as specifying where it is to be installed. Now the obvious (and possibly wrong) is to make a local branch, make this change and propagate changes from the main branch into