On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:02:20AM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "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
Will this propagate via netsync? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
