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Re: removing stuff from repository, permanently

From: Timothee Besset <ttimo_at_idsoftware.com>
Date: 2003-03-06 17:27:49 CET

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:55:46 -0500
"Edmund Lian" <elian@inbrief.net> wrote:
>
> Yes it is... I just posted a question (see "Pruning a repository") about
> how to prune a repository of unwanted revisions, and the only option seems
> to be to use dump, which would change the revision numbers if not used
> properly.
>
> Subversion needs a simpler mechanism to allow paths or revisions to be
> removed from the repository so that one can manage a repository's growth.
>
> ...Edmund.
>

I second that. I have been playing with a design to manage binary data
through svn. One of the problems is that if you keep modifying large sound
and texture files with some kind of autoversioning, repository size will
quickly get out of hand. Ideally I would configure to only keep 15 days of
data or something like that, but certainly not every little change since
the beginning of the project.

It can be done with a dump / reload yes, but it is a very slow operation,
and the repository has to be taken offline.

TTimo

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