Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone Patch

[Richard Li]

Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:

> Monotone contains a diff command.  Should it contain a patch command 
> as well?  The reason I suggest this is because if you have a diff that 
> monotone has generated, and it contains information about file renames 
> (which I think diffs can support).  patch applies the patch and 
> renames the files, monotone is not notified of the renames and will 
> then make you rename all the files then commit.
>
> If there was a monotone patch command, it could handle all of the 
> renaming and stuff on it's own.  Just wanted to get some thoughts on 
> this.

couldn't you do this with a shell script? (perhaps the core monotone 
should avoid adding commands that wouldn't benefit from non-command-line 
access to monotone metadata ... but i also see value in a unified 
command syntax, too)