[Monotone-devel] Re: Removing a branch from my local database

[Lapo Luchini]

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Andy Jones wrote:
> Or, is this a "best practice" thing?  Should I have pulled the
> branch into a new database?
Mhh.. in fact if you are in the "I'm not sure I want it forever" area,
you probably should better import it in a new DB, yes.
To remove it from the DB you have to use the scary command:
mtn db kill_branch_certs_locally BRANCH-NAME
which deletes from the DB the certificates of that branch, though it
doesn't remove file contents (because other branches could be using
them: if a file is the same in content even if in different branches,
directory or filenames, they are stored only once).

In order to get rid of the extra file size you'd have to create a new
DB and locally sync the branches you're interested in into the new DB,
and then drop the old one.

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