Re: subversion usage questions

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:46:19AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Will Holcomb <will@himinbi.org> writes:
>...
> > If I have a single repository then there is no way for me to remove a tree
> > completely, is there? From what I was reading of how the trees and deltas
> > and what-not are stored it seems like it would be hard.
>
> No, the svn repository only grows. There's no "attic" you can delete
> stuff from. Someday we'll have a way to remove chunks of history.
> (See the 'svn obliterate' feature request issue.)

Actually, people could do this today:

1) dump the repository to DUMPFILE
2) run some kinda script that rewrites the sections to obliterate, producing
   DUMPFILE2
   (probably want to keep the same revs; just edit the contents)
3) load DUMPFILE2 into a new repository

All this is possible *today*. And our dump file format is documented in
notes/fs_dumprestore.txt. Assuming that we are good about keeping our
dump/load compatible with that, then people can start writing all kinds of
neat tools to operate on dumpfiles.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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