Re: [RFC] 'basic/additional command set' - adding svn subcommands without destroying our learning curve

Michael Sweet wrote:
>>Svnadmin is for repository management. The proposed "purge" command is
>>for working copy management, so it doesn't belong in svnadmin.
>
> As I understand it, "purge" would remove all revisions of a file from
> the repository, possibly leaving the WC file alone. I would argue
> that removing a file and its history from a repo without the
> possibility of recovery falls under repository management, not WC
> management. A WC operation can be "undone" by reverting a change,
> a repo operation can't.

The 'purge' as described in the original post removes all unversioned
files from a WC. You're probably thinking of the 'obliterate' command
that has been proposed here before.

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Sly
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