Mobile build -786 small test

[Miika Turkia]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:46:25AM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What is the preferred method to clean the git repository? Purge from
>> >> server and recreate local one?
>> >
>> >This is something on my infinite todo list. We have no easy way to do
>> >that. The best I can think of is:
>> >
>> >- store to local XML file
>> >- send email to Dirk to re-init the repository on the server (because I
>> >  don't think you can do that remotely)
>> >- open the local XML file and save to cloud storage again
>> >
>> >If someone has a better idea, please let me know
>> >
>>
>> What about force push?
>>
>> Save your logs to a new local git branch and force push that new branch to the server, overriding the old one there.
>>
>> Does the cloud side allow force pushes?
>
> I'll admit that I haven't thought about that option. Something worth
> investigating.
>
> I'll add it to my list. Or you can play with this yourself if you feel
> ambitious. It's unlikely that you'd be able to break anything on the
> backend (and if you did, that would be a problem that needs fixing,
> anyway).

OK, here we go. So far this looks like a promising method :D
Using star in the commands assumes that there is only one directory
under cloudstorage, which should be the normal case (in reality I used
the correct path name as I took a backup to the same dir).

$ cd ~/.subsurface/cloudstorage/*
$ git checkout --orphan force
$ git add -A
$ git commit
$ git branch  -D miika.turkia at gmail.com
$ git branch -m miika.turkia at gmail.com
$ git push -u --force origin miika.turkia at gmail.com
$ cd .. && rm -rf *

* And finally open up the cloud storage on Subsurface desktop application.

And here is a proof that this exercise was worth it:
$ du -sh *
18M    ea800cd529d85edf
522M    ea800cd529d85edf.bk

I guess it is time to uninstall the Android app before going on and
screwing everything up by trying to sync the old git tree from there.

miika