[Monotone-devel] Re: Normal usage scenario resulted in headless branch. Is it a bug or did I do something wrong?

[graydon hoare]

Eric Meyer wrote:
> Hi Graydon,
>
> Here it is.

oh yuck, you got a circular graph. this is a "bug" in a sort of "thing 
we need to fix" sense, not a simple coding mistake. the easiest way out 
of this is to delete the certs connecting you back on yourself. you 
might try:

monotone debug 'delete from manifest_certs where id like "b7740%"'

that will strip all the certs off that node, and probably un-jam you.

longer term (a month or two?), the mechanism we're discussing for 
"contexts" will make this unfortunate occurrence impossible in the 
future. sorry you ran into it so early.

-graydon