Re: [Monotone-devel] fixing poor branch names

[hendrik]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:02:20AM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "Corey Sweeney" <address@hidden> 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