Re: erase default sync location (Was: Trouble cloning)

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On 28/06/18 17:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> The quoted message describes trouble I've had cloning a database.
>
> I have subsequently cloned another database between the same
> server/client pair, but am still having trouble with the original
> database.
>
> I suspect there is something deeply sick in the howto.mtn database, and
> I don't need advice about cloning it.
>
> It had a history.
>
> I had accidentally deleted it a while ago, then restored it from
> backup.
>
> I had another version of it on a client machine (a different one), and
> synced the one on the client with the one on the server.  After syncing
> and updating workspaces on both client and server, everything seemed to
> be OK.
>
> But now it looks as if it wasn't.
>
> Not sure what to do now.
>
> I could copy the entire database from the client to replace the one on
> the server.  But then the server would have itself as a default sync
> location, which might not be best practice.
>
> How can I remove the default sync location?
>
> -- hendrik
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I'm sorry to be asking basic usage questions again.
>>
>> I have no trouble with the everyday use of monotone -- mind you, the
>> everyday commands are add, drop, sync, and update and they are pretty
>> simple once everything has been set up.
>>
>> But I don't clone often.  I don't set up new databases often, and I
>> regret to say that I still need to ask on this list every time I do it.
>> I always seem to do something wrong.
>>
>> Today it's cloning a database from a server to a new machine.
>>
>> Is clone even the right way to do this?  I could perhaps fall back
>> to the more specific nonamalgameted commands.
>>
>> hendrik@midwinter:~$ mtn clone --db=~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn --key [email protected] mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto?com.pooq.hendrik.howto --branch=com.pooq.hendrik.howto howto
>> mtn: connecting to 'mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto'
>> mtn:   include pattern  'com.pooq.hendrik.howto'
>> mtn:   exclude pattern  ''
>> mtn: finding items to synchronize:
>> mtn: successful exchange with 'mtn://topoi.pooq.com/howto'
>> mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | certs in
>> mtn:       351 |       701 |      0/0
>> mtn: misuse: branch 'com.pooq.hendrik.howto' is empty
>> hendrik@midwinter:~$
>>
>> and listing the branches agrees.
>>
>> hendrik@midwinter:~$ mtn -d ~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn list branches
>> hendrik@midwinter:~$
>>
>> The thing is, listing the branches on the server does *not* agree:
>>
>> hendrik@april:~$ mtn -d ~/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn list branches
>> com.pooq.topoi.howto
>> hendrik@april:~$
>>
>> (yes, the computer identifying itself as april in indeed also topoi.
>> That's not the problem)
>>
>> Somehow I've missed out on doing something.  I'm hoping other eyes will
>> see what I don't.
>>
>> Here's are the relevant usher stanzas I use on the server
>>
>> userpass        "hendrik" "notmypassword"
>> monotone        "/usr/bin/mtn" "-k" "[email protected]"
>> listenaddr      "0.0.0.0:4691"
>> adminaddr       "127.0.0.3:12345"
>> logdir          "/farhome/hendrik/monotone/usher-log/"
>>
>> server          "howto"
>> host            "0.0.0.0"
>> pattern         "com.pooq.topoi.howto"
>> local           "-d" "/farhome/hendrik/.monotone/databases/howto.mtn"
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>
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