issues: 527670799

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527670799 MDU6SXNzdWU1Mjc2NzA3OTk= 639 updating metadata.json without recreating the app 172847 open 0     6 2019-11-24T09:19:53Z 2019-11-30T06:08:50Z   NONE  

I've sucessfully "uploaded" an SQLite database (with a metadata.json file) to heroku using:

$ datasette publish heroku so-sales.db -m metadata.json -n so-sales

The question is: how can I modify the (small) metadata.json file without having to upload the (large) SQLite database.

The directions on heroku indicate I should run:

heroku git:clone -a so-sales

But this just results in an empty directory with a warning: warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

I've been able to "clone" the heroku "app" using the command:

$ heroku slugs:download -a so-sales

but this is not a git repository....

Ideally, it seems to me, there'd be an option of the datasette CLI to allow a file to be updated, or there'd be some way to create a local git "clone" of the app so that the heroku instructions for "Deploying with git" would apply.

(p.s. I ran datasette publish heroku -m metadata.json -n so-sales in the hope that that would not cause the .db file to be wiped, but of course it was.)

(p.p.s. Thanks for Datasette!)

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