Re: [Monotone-devel] depot manipulation routines

[Johannes Winkelmann]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 17:04:31 -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
> Johannes Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This made me wondering about something like 
> >   depot.cgi list (list groups)
> > and 
> >   depot.cgi remove <group>
> > to remove a group completely from the depot.
> 
> sure, those would be easy to add. if you'd be so kind as to file it in
> the BTS, I'll happily throw that, and any other "obvious" depot
> maintenance tasks, in with the next release.
Ok; while I couldn't come up with more ideas for such maintenance tasks,
I added the bug report yesterday.

> I was also considering expanding the "status" command, so that a
> machine could harvest some useful information about your depot (list
> of groups and packets in each, say). what do you think?
This would be a nice feature indeed. How would it look like, something
like 
  monotone status depot <url/group> ?

I'm just wondering as up to now "status" is somewhat bound to the
working copy so I'm not sure if I would expect depot query functionality
in the status command... just wondering though.

[modify depot databases]
> > Or is there another way to do this?
> 
> sqlite databases, in general, can be manipulated with plain SQL
> statements using the sqlite command shell
Yeah, I thought about that but didn't dare :-)

Best regards, Johannes
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