[Monotone-devel] Re: Broken database variables

[Bruce Stephens]

Peter Simons <address@hidden> writes:

> After upgrading to the latest version from venge.net
> (44ed8807bead656889fb5022f974e13a7169098c), I see junk when
> listing the database variables:
>
>   $ monotone ls vars
>   database: default-collection net.venge.monotone
>   database: default-pattern net.venge.monotone
>   database: default-server off.net
>   database: uçÚº[\¢Y^rب net.venge.monotone
>   database: uçÚº[lz»Þ off.net
>   known-servers: off.net 70a0f283898a18815a83df37c902e5f1492e9aa2
>   known-servers: venge.net 70a0f283898a18815a83df37c902e5f1492e9aa2
>
> Any idea how I can fix that?

I don't think they'll be a problem.  It looks like the variable name
used to be unencoded, but now are base64 encoded.  I'm basing that on
doing:

        monotone db execute "select name,unbase64(value) from db_vars"

and

        monotone db execute "select unbase64(name),unbase64(value) from db_vars"

If that's so, then the following (untested) ought to work:

        monotone db execute "delete from db_vars where name='default-server'"
        monotone db execute "delete from db_vars where 
name='default-collection'"

Or maybe just creating a new database and then syncing that against
your old one would work; I imagine vars are database-specific.
Anyway, it looks like a cosmetic thing.