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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Emacs mtn support
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:20:15 +0100
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, there is very primitive support. But you should try DVC (latest
>>> version in ada-france, or a somewhat earlier version in bzr at
>>> http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/dvc.html). It provides a _much_
>>> higher level of support.
>>
>> The only thing I've missed in Emacs support (which is missing in its SVN
>> support, too) is the idea that marking a number of files to be committed
>> should be implemented as one transaction, not one transaction per
>> file.
>
> Which is the _entire_ point of mtn.

Not sure I'd go that far, but it's also the expected way of using svn,
git, hg ...

> DVC definitely adds that, as well as interactive support for propagating
> between branches, with conflict resolution.

OK, sounds good.

>> Did you get my e-mail with my signed mtn key?
>
> Yes, but I don't actually have access to do anything with it; waiting on
> Ludovic.

OK, thanks.

> Your version of mtn (0.48) does not support URLs; you need to use:
>
> $ mtn --db ~/monotone-dbs/ada-france.db pull --key '' www.ada-france.org \
> org.emacs.*
>
> Or upgrade to mtn 1.0.

Since I'd have to build from sources, which involves building botan,
which involves .. well, 0.48 seems to be OK to use, so I'll stick!