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

[Bruce Stephens]

"Andy Jones" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> 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.
>
> Eeek.   That isn't good.

Why is that so bad?  syncing databases is a normal part of working
with monotone.

> I would have thought that this was a pretty likely use case, if you
> compare with how CVS or Subversion is used.

OK, with CVS you can probably get away with removing things from the
repository.  I'm not entirely sure---maybe CVSROOT/history has stuff,
and you'd might want to edit CVSROOT/modules.

How would you do this with subversion?  Surely you need to do svnadmin
dump, then filter, then svnadmin load into a new repository?  That's
*much* more of a problem than using sync in monotone to a new
database, isn't it?