Feature request : a way to stop tracking a table

[kertechs]

Hi,

I’ve been exploring the multitenant approach you described in your blog — one branch per customer. While testing this setup, I realized that I don’t want all tables from main to be merged into customer branches.

I came across the documentation on the dolt_ignore table, but it doesn’t seem to help once a table is already being tracked in the repository.

It would be very helpful to have a way to stop tracking a table — without deleting it — Perhaps something like a dolt rm command or a CALL DOLT_RM() procedure?

Thanks for the great work on Dolt!

[timsehn]

A workaround for this with current functionality is something like:

drop table t; 
call dolt commit('-am', 'deleted t'); 
call dolt_reset(HEAD^);

This will put t back in your working set untracked. Then, you can add it to dolt_ignore.

We're discussing whether we should add call dolt_rm() and dolt rm.

[NathanGabrielson]

Hi @kertechs we added a dolt_rm() stored procedure in the latest patch. I think for your specific use case you'll want to use the --cached flag, otherwise the procedure will also delete the tables from the database. Docs are here.

The command line version (dolt rm) will likely be added in the next patch.