Michael Terry wrote: > 2009/6/25 Kenneth Loafman <[email protected]>: >> No problem. I am having a bit of a problem with LP at the moment. >> Their inflexibility about deletions may mean that we can't use stable as >> the name of a branch. It appears that since I created and deleted two >> of them previously while learning the system, all of them reappear as >> soon as I create the third one. LP claims they can't delete them. >> Sounds like a bad design, to me. > > I don't see any extra series or branches, so I'm not 100% sure I know > the problem you're talking about, but I do have an LP pro tip. > > If you happen to *know* you're about to do something where you're not > sure what the effect will be (like creating series or linking > milestones to a release or whatever), you can use > staging.launchpad.net to make the changes. That site uses a copy of > the real database and is overwritten with the real contents > occasionally -- I think once a day. So you can play there and break > things and then it never affects the actual database. > > Doesn't save you from making mistakes, but it does let you get > familiar with how LP will do something.
I guess they deleted them manually since they are gone now. Thanks for the tip. I'll bear that in mind the next time I want to try something out. Could have saved me and some poor LP guy a bit of grief. ...Ken _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
