Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [OFFTOPIC] News and Outlook on guitone

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:33 +0900, Boris wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:42:55 +0900, Thomas Keller <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> 
> > n the other hand I kind of refuse to use mtn directly (without
> > automate), because I'd have to start another process which works on the
> > same database / workspace for that each time,
> 
> It's even more offtopic but: How do you use mtn automate *without*  
> restarting a process? Let's say I want to get heads and branches: I have  
> to start two processes currently with "mtn automate heads" and "mtn  
> automate branches". I tried "mtn automate" thinking that I can use then  
> monotone like a shell and enter commands like "heads" and "branches" only  
> but this doesn't work (at least not with version 0.32 under Cygwin)?

You use "mtn automate stdio", and talk to it in the format described at
http://monotone.ca/docs/Automation.html#index-mtn-automate-stdio-156


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Timothy

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