Migrating an old beads backup to 0.62.0 I got a wall of Warning: failed to restore issues row: Error 1054 (HY000): Unknown column 'hook_bead' in 'issues'. Made a quick script to fix up the backup format: https://gist.github.com/gaqzi/c2d760627daceffa1f062f93244c3e8e
March 23, 2026
All I got up to this day (as far as you know)
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sometimes on windows I can’t delete files, even in an administrator terminal, so I start WSL and rm -rf it. there’s no questions. 🤷
You can manually clone a dolt database from its git remote when bd bootstrap or bd init won’t cooperate.
bd dolt stop: stop the server in the git repo you’re restoring so you can operate on its databasecd ~/.beads/shared-server/dolt: go to the shared dolt server (it’s.beads/dolt/beadsotherwise, I think)rm -rf <prefix>: remove the DB if it exists alreadydolt clone git+ssh://[email protected]/user/repo.git <prefix>: clone it to your prefixcd - && bd ready: see if you can see the listing
I don’t know why my local just refused with bd bootstrap but this allowed me to fix it manually.