Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold gets it wrong

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:21 -0700, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Well, many of us consider the lack of a convenient 'obliterate' command
> to be a bug, see http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516.
> However, there's a workaround, and designing the feature would
> actually be non-trivial, so we haven't done it yet.

The arguments for security and pruning notwithstanding, the *idea* of an
obliterate seems, well, incongruous to the very nature of a versioning,
history-preserving repository.

One of the points I always stress when teaching people how to use
Subversion (or other versioning tools) is: Be thoughtful when you
commit, but don't be paranoid. Nothing is ever lost. The absolute worst
case is we can get that old file back that you really wanted, and in
fact the history will help us do so. An obliterate puts a large, large,
large asterisk on that point.

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