Re: [Monotone-devel] Suspending branches

[William Uther]

On 20/08/2007, at 9:04 AM, Derek Scherger wrote:

> Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > Here's a list of all nvm* branches, by whether they've been merged  
> > into
> > some other branch and the date on the latest head. I'd think that we
> > could also suspend most of the 'M' ones from this year.
>
> I was just wondering whether we could "suspend" these without actually
> suspending them. i.e. could we just not list a branch by default if  
> its
> heads all have descendants and all of these descendants are not in the
> branch or something? I have a very vague recollection of talking about
> this a long while ago but don't remember where we ended up with it.

That sounds like a sort of 'auto-suspend'.  Remember that 'suspend'  
itself is rather weak...
all it says is "don't list this by default".  You can still go to the  
branch and update.  You can
still commit new revisions on that branch (children of the suspended  
revisions or otherwise).  You can still tell mtn to ignore all  
suspend certs.

I posted the list of branches because I didn't want to catch people  
by surprise, but there's not
really a huge penalty for getting this wrong.  If someone  
accidentally suspends a branch that they shouldn't have, then one  
propagate from trunk and it is un-suspended again.

Having said that.  Thanks everyone for the feedback.  That will help  
me get it closer to right the first time.  I'm not planning to do  
this for about a week to give lurkers time to chime in.

Be well,

Will         :-}