Re: [Monotone-devel] Broken database variables

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:45:27PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> 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: u???[\?Y^r?? net.venge.monotone
>   database: u???[lz?? off.net
>   known-servers: off.net 70a0f283898a18815a83df37c902e5f1492e9aa2
>   known-servers: venge.net 70a0f283898a18815a83df37c902e5f1492e9aa2

Bruce's analysis is correct; no released version of monotone ever
created such vars, but when they were first being developed they did
switch encodings, and I didn't bother adding 'db migrate' support for
it.  They're harmless and can just be ignored; or if they bug you, you
can use "monotone unset".  (If you can't figure out how to type them,
I guess you can also just say 'monotone db execute "delete from
db_vars"', and they'll be recreated as you work; db vars are not very
valuable.)

-- Nathaniel

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