[Monotone-devel] Re: Normal usage scenario resulted in headless branch. Is it a bug or did I do something wrong?

[Eric Meyer]

Thank you, Graydon, that worked. What did I do that created the situation?
The act of propagating from a vendor branch to a local branch is something
that I'll probably do pretty regularly.

How could you tell from the graph which node to delete? Why that one, and
not 9dfefb%?

Regards,
Eric

On Thu, 27 May 2004, graydon hoare wrote:

>Eric Meyer wrote:
>> Hi Graydon,
>>
>> Here it is.
>
>oh yuck, you got a circular graph. this is a "bug" in a sort of "thing
>we need to fix" sense, not a simple coding mistake. the easiest way out
>of this is to delete the certs connecting you back on yourself. you
>might try:
>
>monotone debug 'delete from manifest_certs where id like "b7740%"'
>
>that will strip all the certs off that node, and probably un-jam you.