Karl Fogel wrote:
> Talden <talden_at_gmail.com> writes:
>> #71 suggests I have hand-waved away complex issues. It seems my point
>> has been missed. Obliterate is achieved today with dump/filter/load.
>> It's too slow and resource intensive and filtering isn't as expressive
>> as is desirable. That's where we are at now. Right now. After 7 years
>> of requests.
>>
>> Provide a tool that edits revisions instead of dumping and reloading
>> everything that has at least the filtering expressiveness of
>> dumpfilter and all the same semantics (re: dealing with copies) as a
>> dump/filter/reload and you have a first iteration that substantially
>> reduce the pain for many admins in short-order.
>
> Ah, okay, I hadn't understood that point, thanks. So you meant: a
> tool that has the same effect as what we now recommend people do with
> dump/filter/reload, but without the "dump" and "reload" stages.
>
> It would be a start, at least.
>
[This is getting more and more off topic I'm afraid]
My personal goal for 1.6 (besides improving ra_serf) is to replace
svndumpfilter with something that actually works.
Basically the idea is to:
- read a repository, by loading it from local disc, syncing it or
loading a dump file.
- execute a set of filters on each revision (note not all filters will
work when the source is a dump file).
- write the repository again
While this is not obliterate, for me it would be sufficiently efficient
and handles the 'split repository in a repo per project' feature I need
regularly. I also think this can be stepping stone to continue
implementing obliterate, as the filters can be reused anyway.
In a month or so, I'll send a proposal to the list on how I plan to
write this. I don't think this impacts the obliterate design work at
all, on the contrary, I hope it'll define the necessary filters.
Lieven
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Received on 2008-03-01 16:33:36 CET