Archive for the ‘monotone’ Category

mtn support for indefero got merged

Friday, August 27th, 2010

It took us quite a while, but Loic d'Anterroches finally merged my monotone support fork back into indefero. Its expected that the upcoming 1.1 release of indefero is the first release which ships with mtn support. Most of the things I talked about in the earlier blog post have now been ...

Monotone options rework

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

As I promised earlier I'll continue my little series of noteworthy changes and additions in the upcoming monotone release. What I'll blog about today may sound as if it is merely "syntactic" sugar for the command line end user, but serves a greater purpose when its put in perspective: The ...

On monotone selectors

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

This is the first post in a small series of posts which will show off some of the new functionality you can expect in the next major version of monotone. While there is no fixed release date set for it yet, we plan to release it in fall this year. ...

New local pre-commit hook in monotone

Monday, July 19th, 2010

There was only one hook in monotone until now which could be "reused" to interact with the commit process and validate the changeset that should be committed, the validate_commit_message hook. But this was a bit clumsy as it was actually designed to validate the commit message (as the name suggests) ...

Mailing list roundup

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

I've just set up a new mailing list specifically for monotone users, who find the (sometimes endless) developer discussions too boring or are annoyed of ticket spam. You can find the new list's interface here. The plan is to do basic first level support on this list and move developer-relevant parts ...

guitone and monotone 0.48

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The current fourth release candidate of guitone doesn't work out of the box with monotone 0.48. The reason is that the minor interface version changed slightly and my version check is too strict in this regard. But there is an option for the rescue - simply check "relaxed version check" ...

monotone 0.48 released

Monday, June 14th, 2010

We, the monotone developers, are very proud to announce the new 0.48 release of our distributed version control system. This release comes with dozens of bug fixes - a fall-out of joint efforts during a bug hunt fest earlier this year - and some interesting new features, such as an improved ...

monotone translators needed

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

So you can't code C++, but still want to help out our little version control system? Fine, then maybe you're fluent or even native with a foreign language - if so, our translation team could really need your help! Right now monotone ships with five active translations, Swedish (maintained by Richard ...

mtn-browse 0.70 and accompanying Perl monotone library released

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Tony Cooper writes on monotone-devel: I would like to announce the 0.70 release of mtn-browse: Monotone browser (mtn-browse) is an application for browsing Monotone VCS databases without the need for a workspace. The interface allows one to: Easily select a revision from within a branch Find a revision using complex queries Navigate the contents of ...

guitone 1.0rc4: we have a winner! (updated)

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

This fourth release candidate is dedicated to Lena, the Eurovision Song Contest Winner of 2010 :). It comes with a few new nifty features like an improved changeset browser and enhanced certificate support, as well as a couple of other smaller improvements and bugfixes. The Tarball and a Mac OS X ...