[Monotone-devel] erase default sync location (Was: Trouble cloning)

[Hendrik Boom]

The quoted message describes trouble I've had cloning a database.

I have subsequently cloned another database between the same 
server/client pair, but am still having trouble with the original 
database.

I suspect there is something deeply sick in the howto.mtn database, and 
I don't need advice about cloning it.

It had a history.

I had accidentally deleted it a while ago, then restored it from 
backup.

I had another version of it on a client machine (a different one), and 
synced the one on the client with the one on the server.  After syncing 
and updating workspaces on both client and server, everything seemed to 
be OK.

But now it looks as if it wasn't.

Not sure what to do now.

I could copy the entire database from the client to replace the one on 
the server.  But then the server would have itself as a default sync 
location, which might not be best practice.

How can I remove the default sync location?

-- 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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