Re: ANNOUNCE: Debian build scripts on a public Monotone server

[njs@pobox.com]

Brian May wrote:
> Somewhere in the documentation I read something along similar lines
> (deleting a certificate is not possible unless there are no child
> revisions).

Probably you are thinking of the command to delete a revision, "db
kill_rev_locally", which does have such a comment in its documentation.
 There is no command to delete an individual cert, though you can do it
straightforwardly enough with another of the "open up the hood and
start smashing stuff" commands, "db execute" :-).

> However, this really confuses me.
>
> I thought a revision only had the SHA1 of the previous revision
> details. Each certificate contains the SHA1 of the revision, not the
> other way around.

Correct.

> As such, surely it should be OK to add as many different certificates
> as you want without any of the certificates effecting any subsequent
> revisions. Or delete certificate too, although they may get copied
> back again.

Yes.

> In which case, wouldn't both merge's still result in the same
> revision-id, but with two set of certificates?

Exactly right.

> Or have I misunderstood something?

Nope.

-- Nathaniel
(hoping actual group regulars will forgive any inappropriate
off-topicness...)