[Monotone-devel] Solved. Sorry for the width of bandwidth (was: Trouble cloning

[Hendrik Boom]

Never mind!  I found the problem.  Misspelled branch name.
Ouch!  Why did it take me a whole day to figure this out.

-- hendrik

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:17:19PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I seem to have a data base that I can sync with (from one client system) 
> but cannot clone (to another ckient system).  Is this worth preserving 
> to find out why monotone exhibits thie strange behaviour?  If so, I'll 
> try to keep it aroung for analysis.  If not, I'll just delete it.
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I'm sorry to be asking basic usage questions again.
> > 
> > I have no trouble with the everyday use of monotone -- mind you, the 
> > everyday commands are add, drop, sync, and update and they are pretty 
> > simple once everything has been set up.
> > 
> > But I don't clone often.  I don't set up new databases often, and I 
> > regret to say that I still need to ask on this list every time I do it.  
> > I always seem to do something wrong.
> > 
> > Today it's cloning a database from a server to a new machine.
> > 
> > Is clone even the right way to do this?  I could perhaps fall back 
> > to the more specific nonamalgameted commands.
> > 
> > address@hidden:~$ mtn clone --db=~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn --key 
> > address@hidden mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto?com.pooq.hendrik.howto 
> > --branch=com.pooq.hendrik.howto howto
> > mtn: connecting to 'mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto'
> > mtn:   include pattern  'com.pooq.hendrik.howto'
> > mtn:   exclude pattern  ''
> > mtn: finding items to synchronize:
> > mtn: successful exchange with 'mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto'
> > mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | certs in
> > mtn:       351 |       701 |      0/0
> > mtn: misuse: branch 'com.pooq.hendrik.howto' is empty
> > address@hidden:~$
> > 
> > and listing the branches agrees.
> > 
> > address@hidden:~$ mtn -d ~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn list branches
> > address@hidden:~$ 
> > 
> > The thing is, listing the branches on the server does *not* agree:
> > 
> > address@hidden:~$ mtn -d ~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn list branches
> > com.pooq.topoi.howto
> > address@hidden:~$ 
> > 
> > (yes, the computer identifying itself as april in indeed also topoi.  
> > That's not the problem)
> > 
> > Somehow I've missed out on doing something.  I'm hoping other eyes will 
> > see what I don't.
> > 
> > Here's are the relevant usher stanzas I use on the server
> > 
> > userpass        "hendrik" "notmypassword"
> > monotone        "/usr/bin/mtn" "-k" "address@hidden"
> > listenaddr      "0.0.0.0:4691"
> > adminaddr       "127.0.0.3:12345"
> > logdir          "/farhome/hendrik/monotone/usher-log/"
> > 
> > server          "howto"
> > host            "0.0.0.0"
> > pattern         "com.pooq.topoi.howto"
> > local           "-d" "/farhome/hendrik/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn"
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> > 
> > 
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