Re: [Monotone-devel] OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

[Christof Petig]

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Justin Patrin schrieb:
> It seems that some of the folks at OpenEmbedded are now grumbling
> about use of monotone again and that some of our key developers are
> looking to switch to something else (hg or git)[1]. The main point of
> contention seems to revolve around, as we've seem lately on this list,
> getting rid of revisions. In this particular case a revision had been
> distributed that made unwanted changes. It was a head revision and was
> suspended by a developer but other developers who had versions of
> monotone prior to the suspend functionality blindly merged it with
> their code, causing a chain of suspensions/removals that was
> eventually fixed with a reverse patch.
> 
> I'm sad to see OpenEmbedded moving away from monotone as I still like
> many of the things about it. Some or all of the problems cropped up
> could possibly have been fixed with various parts of the "policy
> branch" cloud of features. Are we anywhere near close on getting any
> of that done?
> 
> [1] 
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-April/005213.html
> 

Hi Justin,

implementing a revision block on the server would be a matter of hours.
But would this make a difference?

   Christof

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