Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows]

[Nuno Lucas]

On 3/2/07, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:32:43PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> > Small poll: what database file does other people use?
>
> Hmm, odd, I seem to be in the minority :-).  I have a directory under
> ~/src/ for each project, so I have e.g. ~/src/monotone/, and then it
> contains my db in the top level, monotone.mtn, and a bunch of checkout
> directories on different branches, and build directories for those
> checkouts.  The nice thing about this approach is that it means all
> the data for a single project is stuck together in one place; this is
> sort of the model I have in the back of my head when I talk about how
> I think the UI should look.
>
> So either I'm wrong or everyone else is :-).  I guess I'm curious what
> people think...

That's what I do, except I also have one or two dbs on ~/var/ for more
general stuf (like versioning source of the 3rd party libraries I use,
just to easily check for code changes in case of problems).


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas