Re: deleting databases

Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes:

> Rereading the tutorial for the first time in years I discovered the llovely command 
>
> $ mtn db init --db=:beth
>
> in section 2.3, which creates a database in a standard location, 
> normally $HOME/.monotone/databases
>
> I immediately tried it out, and created
>
> ~/.monotone/databases/onion.mtn
>
> And, of course, I then wondered how to delete it again.
>
>
> Now I get to ask -- does monotone keep any information on this 
> database  outside of the database itself and the _MTN directories in 
> its workspaces.

No, that is the only persistent storage mtn uses.

> Because if not, I can delete it with a simple
> 	rm ~/.monotone/databases/onion.mtn

Yes, that suffices.

Unless, of course, you have synced it somewhere.

-- 
-- Stephe