[Monotone-devel] 'db kill_unreferenced_file_locally'

[Daniel THOMPSON]

Hi Folks

Sorry to trouble you again so soon. Basically I wonder if there is any
scope for adding the command 'kill_unreferenced_file_locally'.

Basically I have a whole bunch of files left after the rosterification
(I think they are the old .mt-attrs files) which make more noise than
I'd like.

e.g.
mtn: file 097b371d236dfc3ca9603621bf5db1b878fa9422 unreferenced

I couldn't find the appropriate command to remove them so I tried the
following rather brutal approach.

for i in $REVS
do
 mtn --db=indigo.db db execute "DELETE FROM files WHERE id='$i'"
 mtn --db=indigo.db db execute "DELETE FROM file_deltas WHERE id='$i'"
 mtn --db=indigo.db db execute "DELETE FROM file_deltas WHERE base='$i'"
done

Which 'works' in the sense that 'mtn db check' reports no errors but
still somehow leaves me with a sense of unease.

I therefore wondered if implementing a command 'db
kill_unreferenced_file_locally' would be possible (or useful)?

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