Re: Permanent deleting the deleted files.

On Jan 31, 2011, at 03:33, Echlin, Jamie wrote:

>> What you're looking for is an "obliterate" function. That's
>> been discussed a number of times in the past, and never been
>> successfully pursuied.
>
> The last update I've seen about the obliterate feature imply that it's
> been abandoned for the medium-term:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-08/0457.shtml

According to that message, because work on WC-NG was more important for 1.7. But I haven't been following the dev list so I don't know what else was said.

> Yet Julian Foad appears to be doing a talk about just this feature in
> 1.7 at "Subversion Live" -
> http://www.wandisco.com/events/subversionlive2011/agenda.

Julian Foad is, I believe, an employee of WANdisco, the company that seems to be behind that event, and which recently announced their intention to implement various long-outstanding feature requests and bug fixes in Subversion. Perhaps the talk is about their continued desire to implement obliterate, or perhaps some renewed successes at doing so.

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_subversion_to_wandisco_1

> So, will it be in 1.7?

This is the ticket for the obliterate feature request:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516

It is listed as "unscheduled", meaning it is not slated to appear in any particular version of Subversion at this time. 1.7 is already full of WC-NG so I would expect the devs to want to move any other major changes to the next version.

There also have not been any comments in that issue since 2009; if someone were working on implementing it, I'd hope the ticket would so indicate.
Received on 2011-01-31 10:52:21 CET