"Corey Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everyone. I've been using monotone 0.24 for a while now, and it's
> been great. When i first started using monotone, i made some bad
> choices in my branchnames (including one branched called 'initial
> checkin' :). Now that i understand what the branchnames are for, i'd
> like to bring my branch names in line with the naming convention. Is
> there a way to do that without loosing the history? I'd really like
> to clean up my cluttered namespace.
>
> (Please cc me on any responces, as i'm not subscribed to the list)
>
> Corey
Supposing you want to "rename" the branch "initial checkin" to
"org.corey-sweeney.schmoll", here is how I would do it. I tested this
on monotone 0.31 with bash.
Step 1: add a new branch certificate
$ for rev in $(mtn -d my_db.mtn automate select "b:initial checkin"); do \
mtn -d my_db.mtn approve -b org.corey-sweeney.schmoll $rev; \
done
Step 2: create a new, empty database.
$ mtn db init -d new.mtn
Step 3: pull everything from the old DB, excluding the unwanted branch
certs:
$ mtn -d new.db pull --exclude "initial checkin" file:my_db.mtn '*'
HTH
Step 4: after verifying the results, overwrite the old db with the new
one:
$ mv -f new.db my_db.mtn
HTH
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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