[Monotone-devel] Re: Deleting branches

[Peter Simons]

Bruce Stephens writes:

 > That would also allow one to remove ordinary commits in
 > the case of errors, so long as they're at the head, which
 > is likely to be an intuitive feature.

Why not allow to erase arbitrary commits? Clearly the
branches these commits belonged to would become "unmerged"
in the process, but I think that's fine. That might be
exactly what I want. 


 > I've no idea what the user interface might be. 

Perhaps the following:

  monotone erase branch temp.foo
  monotone erase manifest SHA1 

...?


 > I think that's much nastier. That sort of implies
 > restrospectively altering manifests, and if you alter a
 > manifest then its SHA1 hash changes, and everything
 > breaks!

I'd be perfectly happy if the entire commit could be erased.
I don't really need to erase individual files that are part
of a commit; I'll just commit a fixed version. 

Peter