[Monotone-devel] Re: deleting branches, keys, etc.

[Bruce Stephens]

Derek Scherger <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>       - file versions that don't appear in any manifest
>       - manifests without branch certs
>       - manifests without other certs (author, changelog, date)
>       - certs signed with unknown keys
>
> although I'm not sure what you might do after finding such
> things. Deleting files and manifests would probably be kinda bad.

For files and manifests, it might be sufficient just to provide some
way to list them, since one can always do "monotone cat file ID" and
"monotone cat manifest ID".  Alternatively, there could be a special
branch lost+found, and fsck could create pointers to the manifests and
files in that.