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This chapter covers slightly less common aspects of using monotone. Some users of monotone will find these helpful, though possibly not all. We assume that you have read through the taxonomy and tutorial, and possibly spent some time playing with the program to familiarize yourself with its operation.
| • Other Transports: | Using netsync over SSH, or other transports. | |
| • Selectors: | Selecting revisions by certificate. | |
| • Restrictions: | Limit workspace changes to specified files. | |
| • Scripting: | Running monotone from other programs. | |
| • Inodeprints: | Trading off safety for speed in your workspace. | |
| • Merge Conflicts: | The various conflict types and how to resolve them. | |
| • Workspace Collisions: | Workspace files that collide with new versioned files. | |
| • Quality Assurance: | Integrating testing and review with development. | |
| • Vars: | Simple per-database configuration information. | |
| • Managed Databases: | Default databases and database directories. | |
| • Reserved Files: | File names with special meanings. | |
| • Reserved Certs: | Certificate names with special meanings. | |
| • Naming Conventions: | Choosing appropriate names for keys and branches. | |
| • File Attributes: | Marking files as executable, or other attributes. | |
| • Migrating and Dumping: | Changing the underlying storage system. | |
| • Importing from CVS: | Building a monotone database from a CVS repository. | |
| • Exporting to GIT: | Building a git repository from a monotone database. | |
| • Using packets: | Transferring data “by hand”. | |
| • Bisecting: | Finding bad revisions. |
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