Re: Unversioned files held by repo

Mad Scientist wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning_at_dell.com
> <mailto:Paul_Koning_at_dell.com>> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt imMute Sickler <immute_at_msk4.ath.cx
> <mailto:immute_at_msk4.ath.cx>> writes:
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> Matt> Subversion was designed not to lose history and does a damn
> Matt> good job of it. If anyone *really really* wants this
> Matt> functionality, ...
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> I wouldn't go that far. At the very most, such a patch could be
> tolerated if and only if the "feature" defaults to disabled. But my
> preference is that any such patch shuold be rejected out of hand.
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> I was thinking more it would be something where it gives you the option
> to commit files with a unversioned flag set( maybe svn:unversioned ). So
> it would definitely be opt in not opt out.

And I'd envision it as something that should require file level access
to the repository, since it is the moral equivalent of doing a
dump/filter/load. Or it should just hide the old versions until an
admin uses some command to purge them from the repository.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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