Re: [Monotone-devel] Removing things from the database

[Christof Petig]

Matthew A. Nicholson schrieb:
> Christof Petig wrote:
> > This would work like a distributed remove command. If you evaluate
> > invalidation certificates after sync is completed and do it in issued
> > order (possible ?) you could even revoke remove certs (and revive (or
> > re-receive the data if necessary)).
>
> Not quite what I mean.  I just want to be able to remove information
> from the db.  Like I don't want to have branches and things in there
> that I will never use again, from the one time I synced with venge.net.
> I want to physcially remove the information, not mark a branch as
> deleted.  This would only operate on the local db.

Julio talked about changing the changelog afterwards. Why limit the
command to the local, non distributed case?

If you synced with another server before correcting the changelog you
would receive the wrong cert again and again once you resync with it.
And since this cert invalidation certificate also might be able to cover
other problems I still believe it's a reasonable way to go.

   Christof

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