Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Feature request: monotone grep

[Marcel van der Boom]

On 9 nov 2005, at 19:36, Bruce Stephens wrote:

> > I posted that idea a while ago. The most important application for
> > such a construct for us is having scripts distributed to the people
> > in our project. (like inside the repo, inside MT dir would be
> > perfect) So they can be rev controlled and maintained alongside the
> > actual project code.
>
> Well, there's no problem in a group of people adopting some suitable
> conventions.  For example, you could have a branch "tools" that you
> always check out and add to your path, and you could have a
> shellscript or something to help automate that.
Yep, that's basically what we do now.

> That wouldn't affect monotone.  I understood that some people wanted
> to alter monotone in such a way that such scripts or programs would be
> called by subcommands of monotone.
That would be me too. :-)

> My guess is that it would be better to wait, and maybe after the core
> program has settled then it'll be easier to see how to safely expose
> suitable functionality to lua functions.
I think i agree with that, also based on the lack of enthusiasm for  
the idea. I can totally relate to this not being a priority at this  
point in time.

marcel

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