Re: ANNOUNCE: Debian build scripts on a public Monotone server

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "njs" == njs  <njs@pobox.com> writes:

    njs> For a concrete example... say your project server's disk
    njs> melts.  Solution: drop an empty db on a host somewhere, start
    njs> serving out of it.  The first person to use it will
    njs> automatically push up whatever old history they have
    njs> available locally.  If they weren't quite up to date, no
    njs> problem; as everyone else hits the server in the normal
    njs> course of their work, they'll fill in whatever parts are
    njs> missing.

Hmmm. Could get interesting. Consider the case of a user not using a
given computer account for several years, and suddenly they wake up
and do a sync operation.

"Where did this fork from??? Everything in it is obsolete!"

Just curious: Is it possible to somehow terminate a dead tree head
without merging it?

(sidenote: I have had a dead/obsolete DECstation/Ultrix computer at
another campus suddenly "wake up" and start sending the occasional
packet with my own IP address; fortunately it didn't seem to response
to incoming packets; hence I think the above is possible).

However not a show stopper by any means.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>