Hi, A couple of days ago, I implemented an "import" command that basically does the same kind of thing as "cvs import" except it doesn't do any propagation. All it does is import a source tree to a branch of your choice (initial import works as well).
The really basic data that command takes is either --revision or --branch, and the directory where the source tree resides. If --branch is given, the import will become a child revision of the head of that branch. If --revision is given, the import will become a child revision of that revision. What happens is the following: - construct a temporary _MTN, including _MTN/revision with a correct old revision identity (i.e. the head of the given branch, or the given revision identity). - perform "add --unknown". - perform "drop --missing". - perform "commit" with the given message (through --message or --message-file). - clean away the temporary _MTN. Really, all of the above could have been done manually if it wasn't for that damn _MTN/revision that needs to be constructed by hand, and it's better if monotone itself does that correctly than having a script do it wrongly (perhaps not today, but the next time the format changes). The two use cases I have are the following: - Tracking a CVS flow with no regard for CVS history: $ cd {project} $ cvs update -dP $ mtn import . \ -d {database} \ -b {project}.import \ -m "Import of project, `date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M'`" $ mtn propagate -d {database} {project}.import {project} - Tracking new versions of software: $ tar -xvzf kphotoalbum-2006-11-27-noi18n.tar.gz $ mtn import kphotoalbum-2006-11-27-noi18n \ -d {database} \ -b free.lp.se:kphotoalbum.import \ -m "Import of KPhotoAlbum, `date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M'`" $ mtn propagate -d {database} \ free.lp.se:kphotoalbum.import \ free.lp.se:kphotoalbum The second case is especially painful to do manually, because of the need to create that _MTN directory and the _MTN/revision file. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel