Re: [Monotone-devel] Getting at revision from old DB

[Bruce Stephens]

Detlef Vollmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> for a database in the old format (0.23) I had a specific revision.
> Now I need to checkout that revision from a DB migrated to the
> new format (I use now 0.29), but get the error:
> mtn: misuse: no such revision 'ef736222cb8bd5af85eb593d850cb17872dabfc8'
>
> How can I get that revision from the new database?
> (I still have the old database and the old monotone version,
> but it was not me who did the migration.)

Do "monotone certs ef736222cb8bd5af85eb593d850cb17872dabfc8" on the
old database, and use the values to construct a selector, which you
can then use on the new database.

(Probably it'll be more than sufficient to use the branch, author, and
date.)