Talden <talden_at_gmail.com> writes:
> #71 suggests I have hand-waved away complex issues. It seems my point
> has been missed. Obliterate is achieved today with dump/filter/load.
> It's too slow and resource intensive and filtering isn't as expressive
> as is desirable. That's where we are at now. Right now. After 7 years
> of requests.
>
> Provide a tool that edits revisions instead of dumping and reloading
> everything that has at least the filtering expressiveness of
> dumpfilter and all the same semantics (re: dealing with copies) as a
> dump/filter/reload and you have a first iteration that substantially
> reduce the pain for many admins in short-order.
Ah, okay, I hadn't understood that point, thanks. So you meant: a
tool that has the same effect as what we now recommend people do with
dump/filter/reload, but without the "dump" and "reload" stages.
It would be a start, at least.
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