Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone-viz and repository structure.

[Stephen Leake]

address@hidden writes:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:06:13AM +0100, Thomas Moschny wrote:
>> Hi Hendrik,
>> 
>> Am Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:57:57 -0500
>> schrieb address@hidden:
>> 
>> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:35:42PM -0500, address@hidden
>> > wrote:
>> > > I have my own copy of the monotone repository.  At least I think I
>> > > do. It seems to sync properly when I pull.
>> > > 
>> > > But I' trying to obtain monotone-viz.  It doesn't seem to be in my 
>> > > repository,  Is this just an accident of history, that I failed to 
>> > > specify the branch when I pulled monotone initially?  Or is it, 
>> > > and should it be, in a completely separate repository?
>> 
>> It is in the branch "net.venge.monotone-viz" (and some subbranches
>> thereof) in the monotone repository served at monotone.ca. Depending on
>> the pattern you are using (see "mtn ls vars database") this branch name
>> might have never matched during pull for you.
>
> Thanks.  I was more-or-less asking about best practices rather than 
> trying to solve a problem.
>
> If it is in the same repository at "headquarters", it makes some to be 
> consistent and put it in the same repository here.  But I am starting 
> to suspect that it really doesn't matter much.

Right; you can pull any branch into any repository (= monotone
database). But then you do have to be careful not to accidentally send
a branch to an upstream repository; we don't want to have non-monotone
branches in the database at monotone.ca.

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-- Stephe