Re: [Monotone-devel] One-step checkouts?

[Richard Levitte]

Tomas Fasth writes: 

> One way to simplify commands for newcomers that came to my mind is
> to extend the use of environment variables to provide default values
> for the --db and --branch options. Example: 
>
> export MONOTONEDB=monotone.db
> export MONOTONEBRANCH=net.venge.monotone 
>
> monotone db init
> monotone pull venge.net net.venge.monotone
> monotone co monotone

I don't really see the need for that, especially since one can as well do 
this: 

export MONOTONE="monotone --db=monotone.db"
export MONOTONE_B="$MONOTONE --branch=net.venge.monotone" 

$MONOTONE db init
$MONOTONE pull venge.net net.venge.monotone
$MONOTONE_B co monotone 

> By the way, here's a newbee question; Is there a difference between
> collection and branch, as used in pull and co?

Yes.  A collection is basically a prefix to express a collection of 
branches.  So the collection net.venge.monotone could be expressed with the 
glob "net.venge.monotone*", while then branch net.venge.monotone only 
matches itself. 

> PS
> My personal opinion is that those three initial steps above are
> essential for the understanding of how monotone works. It may not do
> any good in the long run to hide this from a newcomer.

I agree with that. 

Cheers,
Richard 

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