Re: Shredding private/confidential information?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:45:54AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> There are many situations where the extra pristine copies are
> inconvenient, particularly when working with tools that like to do
> recursive things

In case you didn't know, wc-ng is the default on trunk now.
Please try it out and help by providing feedback or even patches
if you are so inclined. The more help we get, the faster it will
be possible to have a single working copy meta-data store in your
home directory, for all your working copies. That will solve this
problem.

> - and as CVS demonstrates they are unnecessary.

With CVS, people complained that they had to talk to the server
all the time. And now people complain that they don't have to
talk to the server all the time -- *sigh* :)

> I'd like to see an option for SVN to not use them. If you are on a
> reasonable network the bandwidth savings from sending diffs in commits
> won't matter (and you may have workspaces where you don't make any
> changes anyway) and the concept of offline work is meaningless.

Well, a centralised meta data store will hopefully address this issue
a bit, because text-bases will be stored in a single, controllable
location, and can be shared by multiple working copies. And maybe, maybe,
it will be easy to just store text-base checksums instead of entire
copies of files in the sqlite DB? Who knows.

Again, if you want this soon, please use trunk now and help test wc-ng.

Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2009-04-28 15:28:06 CEST