[oe] Confusing wording on GettingStarted page

Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 02:15:26 UTC 2007


Hello Grant,

Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 3:38:23 AM, you wrote:

> There is some confusing wording on the GettingStarted Wiki
> page.  I tried to figure out how to get an account so I could
> fix it, but was unable to.

  Did you try "Edit" tab? ;-)

> The issue is that there are places where a Monotone workspace
> is referred to as a "database".  A Monotone database is
> something completely separate from a workspace.  For example in
> the "Updating OE" it says

>    Then update the branch(es) you are using. This will update the
>    contents of the files in the local database. For example:

>      $ cd /stuff/org.openembedded.dev && mtn update
>      $ cd /stuff/org.openembedded.dreambox && mtn update

> The commands are correct, but they're not updating the local
> database (which is a file typically name OE.mtn), they're
> updating two local workspaces.




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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com





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