Re: [Monotone-devel] Removing a revision from a branch

[Shaun Jackman]

On 6/8/06, Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:23 -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > I don't know how it happened, but apparently I accidentally added a
> > revision to  a branch to which it does not belong. How do I remove the
> > revision from the branch? Is there a command to remove a specified
> > cert?
>
> No, you have to use 'db execute'.
>
> Make a copy of your db, then run
>    mtn db execute "delete from revision_certs where id = '<revid>'
>    and name = 'branch'"
> (remove all branch certs from that revision), then
>    mtn approve <revid> -b branch-you-want
> (put back the one you want).

Thanks! Your advice worked perfectly. Incidentally, the branch still
has two `date' certs. I can figure out on my own how to remove one of
them with `db execute' command. What could possibly cause two date
certs to be created?

Cheers,
Shaun