Isn multiple heads on a branch dangerous or crazy?
Not at all. CVS implicitly lets your entire team maintain multiple heads (in their working copies) all the time. Monotone just records the fact in the database, so it doesn’t get “lost” in a clobbered or unavailable working copy. Here is an example: have you ever had a CVS working copy with an interesting change on your desktop, and wanted to move it to your laptop, or take it home for the evening to tinker with? Using CVS, the divergence is “hidden” from the CVS server until you commit, by which time it must be “resolved”. Using monotone, you can commit whenever you like; you will just make a new head. You can check out that new head and continue to work on it (at home, on a laptop, wherever) until you’re satisfied that it’s OK, then merge with your colleagues. Monotone takes the approach that divergence is a fundamental part of being a VCS. Divergence always happens. The proper role of a VCS, then, is not to try to prevent or hide divergence, but instead to make it visible and provid
