Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: SQL Statements

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:19:17PM +0200, Florian Becker wrote:
> Yes, from that file i got by basic informations. I thought to a page like:
> Thats removes a file:
> SQL Statement
> That removes a branch:
> SQL Statment II
> and so on...
> but we have no page, it must work without it than....

Note that you can't correctly remove file or manifest data just with
SQL commands; they are all stored as deltas against each other, so if
you just delete file A, you may accidentally also lose access to files
B and C that were stored as A+patch.

-- Nathaniel

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