Re: [Monotone-devel] db kill_rev_locally

[Daniel Carrera]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When you run "db kill_rev_locally", does Monotone record who performed 
> that action? E.g. a malicious developer or an unauthorized person who 
> stole a developer's credentials might run this command and we would like 
> to know who it was.


On a related topic: I know that this does not actually delete the 
revision, but does it delete the *certs* associated with that revision?

This is what the documentation says:

"It does not actually delete the revision's files or manifest from your 
database. If you run this command, and then run db check, it will note 
that you have an “unreferenced manifest”. If you wish to eliminate this 
data for good (and thus free up the space), you may use netsync to pull 
from your current database into a new database; this creates a copy of 
your old database, without the unreferenced data. However, having this 
data in your database will not cause any problems, and acts as a safety 
net; if you later realize that you do, after all, need to retrieve the 
data in id, then db check will let you see which manifest it was, and 
with some work you can extract id's data."



Finally, what is a manifest?