Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?

[Zack Weinberg]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> Most of the relevant commands are pretty trivial info-dumping things,
> "heads" and "give me ancestry information" and "tell me about this
> cert" etc., where most of the logic _is_ the the formatting.  What if
> we added a subcommand family called something like "automate",
> analogous to "db" or "list" -- so "monotone automate heads" just
> prints the head revision ids one per line, no pretty-printing, no
> sensitivity to --verbose, etc. 

As someone who's had to write far more of those kludgy shell scripts
that you mention than I would like to admit, I love this idea.

zw