Easier way to kill genesis for dev purposes

[rigelrozanski]

Just wish there was a better way than calling rm -rf ~/.basecoin if I need a new genesis - OR if the genesis file has changed. It doesn't make sense to include this in unsafe_reset_all based on tendermint/tendermint#571 wondering if it should be a hidden option in the Makefile with a tiny bit of logic: if $BCHOME exists use rm -rf $BCHOME otherwise rm -rf ~/.basecoin... not sure

[ethanfrey]

I just use rm -rf $BCHOME, and basecli does have a reset_all to wipe it all out.

I know bucky doesn't like ever deleting genesis and config from tendermint. I don't really care.

Add a special basecoin command if you want and PR it. Or talk more with Bucky.

[zramsay]

i'm a big fan of a clean command that defaults to mostly clean for dev purposes & additional cleaning via flags for nuke purposes

[ethanfrey]

There is a basecoin unsafe_reset_all command. At one time it cleaned everything up. Then @ebuchman complained, saying it must only remove the state of the chain (blocks, wal, etc) and not touch the genesis file.

Since then I have been afraid of ever deleting the genesis file with any command. Please talk to @ebuchman and clarify an approach he would accept.

On the app I developed, basecli reset_all will wipe out everything, including keys, basecli init --force-reset will reinitialize all data, but not touch the keys. Both of which seem very usable for me. I am a supporter of this, but as said, bucky must agree.

[ebuchman]

I'm happy to have a command for wiping everything, and I don't have much opinion. The only opinion I'd enforce is consistency. If tendermint has a command unsafe_reset_all, and basecoin has the same command, the semantic effect should be identical - ie. reset all state to genesis. If you want to add unsafe_clear_all, or unsafe_delete_all or whatever, that's fine by me. could be unsafe_reset_all --delete ... don't care too much, anything that makes sense is fine, so long as we are consistent

[ethanfrey]

Okay, @zramsay @rigelrozanski it's on you. Tell me what command you want to do this, and I'll do it (or rigel can just do it). Happy to close this issue.

[rigelrozanski]

I'm fine to just continue using rm -rf for dev purpose. Alternatively we should keep the existing commands as is and include an alternative hidden dev command wipe_all which would kill everything including genesis

[ethanfrey]

Nice idea with the hidden command Rigel.

Like the hidden trust node flag

[ebuchman]

stale, but also relevant for #324