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Chapter 4: Command Reference
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Permit automate commands to be run against a database that is
being used to serve netsync connections.
Input/Output format
This command takes input and produces output in exactly the
same format as automate stdio. Note that the commands run
with automate remote_stdio may conform to a different interface version, because they are handled by a remote instance of
monotone.
There will be some extra chatter on stderr unless --quiet is given.
Error Conditions
If left idle for too long or there are network problems, the connection
to the server may be dropped. This will not be detected while
monotone is waiting for input. Instead, when a complete command
has been entered and monotone tries to send it to the remote server
it will print a message to stderr and exit with code 1.
Notes
If no database is specified, a :memory: database is used.
On the server side the get_remote_automate_permitted hook has
to be configured to include every command which should be executable over this interface.
For both, the client and the server, keyboard interaction is disabled,
just as if --non-interactive is specified. Actions which require
operations on password-encrypted private keys will therefor fail unless the [get passphrase], page 190 hook is set up locally and / or
remotely.
mtn automate roots
Arguments:
None.
Added in:
4.3
Purpose:
Prints the roots of the revision graph, i.e. all revisions that have
no parents.
Sample output:
276264b0b3f1e70fc1835a700e6e61bdbe4c3f2f
Output format:
Zero or more lines, each a root of the revision graph. Each line
consists of a revision ID, in hexadecimal, followed by a newline.
The lines are printed in alphabetically sorted order.
Error conditions:
None.