guitone - a Qt-Frontend for monotone ==================================== Guitone is a frontend to the monotone revision control system. It aims towards a full implementation of the monotone automation interface and is especially targeted at beginners. Guitone is copylefted under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3, or, at your option, any later version of this license. Building ======== You need Qt >= 4.5.0 to build and monotone >= 0.46 (or a monotone with an interface version of 12.0 or greater) to run guitone. Earlier versions do not have all the infrastructure for certain functionalities available, but might still work in some areas. (You have to lower the requirements in the project file and rebuild monotone before you can actually make it work with older versions - but this is not recommended.) If you like to build on Windows, you either need a MingW-enabled or Visual Studio-enabled version of Qt. Please check the docs at qt.nokia.com for assistance how to build and / or install Qt on Windows. To build under Windows (MingW) / Linux / Mac OS X, just do $ cd /path/to/guitone $ qmake -config release $ make The following additional make targets are available: tarball (Linux / Mac OS X only): Creates a clean, indentifyable tarball for distribution. ATTENTION: The Makefile also comes with an autogenerated, but bugg dist target from Qt - do _not_ use that! install (Linux only): Installs the application and related files honoring PREFIX and INSTALL_ROOT (make INSTALL_ROOT=/tmp/install-root install) macdeploy (Mac OS X only): Deploy the Qt libraries and plugins in the application bundle macdisk (Mac OS X only): Create a distributable disk image containing the deployed application bundle and a set of text documents Some influential variables (qmake VARNAME=value): LRELEASE (all platforms): Path to Qt's lrelease utility (Default: lrelease) MTN (all platforms): Path to a monotone binary to determine the base revision of the version which is about to be built (Default: mtn) MACDEPLOYQT (Mac OS X only): Path to Qt's macdeployqt utility (Default: macdeployqt) HDIUTIL (Mac OS X only): Path to Mac OS X' hdiutil disk utility (Default: hdiutil) PREFIX (Linux only): Installation prefix (Default: /usr) BINDIR (Linux only): Installation directory for binaries (Default: PREFIX/bin) DATADIR (Linux only): Installation directory for data (Default: PREFIX/share) APPDIR (Linux only): Installation directory for .desktop files (Default: DATADIR/applications) DOCDIR (Linux only) Installation directory for documentation (Default: DATADIR/doc/guitone) MIMEDIR (Linux only): Installation directory for mime configuration files (Default: DATADIR/mime/packages) PIXMAPDIR (Linux only): Directory for icons and pixmaps (Default: DATADIR/pixmaps) All created files can be found in bin/. Obtaining the source ==================== The most recent version can always be obtained from the guitone repository at thomaskeller.biz. guitone is located in the branch net.venge.monotone.guitone: $ mtn db init -d guitone.mtn $ mtn pull -d guitone.mtn thomaskeller.biz "net.venge.monotone.guitone" Program Notes ============= * If you encounter crashes, make sure that you've cleaned out any old settings directory, usually under .config/GUITONE or under .config/Thomas\ Keller. Newer versions of guitone save their settings according to the underlying platform, ie. as config file under Mac OS X (~/Library/Preferences/biz.thomaskeller.guitone.conf) or in the registry under Windows. * If you still encounter crashes try to enable the file log in the Preferences dialog. The log is usually saved in your home directory, as "guitone.log". Please send this file, together with a description what you've done and (optionally) a gdb backtrace to the author. * If column sizes in the file diff dialog aren't properly sized and any resize attempts are not remembered, please open guitone's configuration and remove any entry for 'diffView_header' manually. You can find the configuration in $HOME/.config/Thomas\ Keller/guitone.conf on Linux / Unix, in $HOME/Library/Preferences/biz.thomaskeller.guitone.plist on Mac OS X and finally in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thomas Keller\guitone if you're using a Windows build. * If you try an anonymous pull after you tried a pull with a specific key, the anonymous one might fail with "Key 'abc...' is unknown to server" as well, because monotone 0.46 has a bug which prevents the resetting of global options such as --key between stdio commands. * When you switch one workspace to another revision, old paths might still pop up in the workspace view on Mac OS X. The reason for that is because Qt doesn't properly resets / clears the attached views if a model is hard reset. Clicking on these "ghost" items should remove them. * If your problem is not described here, take a look at the task list on http://guitone.thomaskeller.biz/g/tracker Platform Notes ============== * If you like to compile guitone on Mac OS X, make sure you've updated your gcc to 4.0.1 or newer which comes with XCode 2.2 or later. Otherwise you'll get a "Bus error" on runtime due to a bug in gcc 4.0.0 Author ====== Thomas "tommyd" Keller Contributions are very welcome, I'm usually hanging around in the oftc and freenode networks (nick: tommyd), so don't hesitate to contact me! Former Contributors =================== Ingo "Slinky" Maindorfer Jean-Louis "Ganwell" Fuchs