Re: Another request for obliterate...

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:13:45PM -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> However, the target building process can take a very long time, so we
> also commit the targets at the same time as the source assets. Any
> past build can be obtained quickly, and we aren't tied to a "build of
> the day" type scenario...

So you want to commit binary targets so that you don't have to rebuild
them, but you want obliterate so that you can completely delete the
binary targets from the SCM.

You mentioned that you have a wrapper that filters out the targets
for those who don't want them. Instead of shoving all the targets
into subversion, why not wrapper that copies the binaries to another
location, marked with the corresponding subversion revision number? It's
sounds like what you really want is a cache of built targets, and it
might be easier to implement it that way, rather than overloading the
*source* control system. You can manage the cache by hand ("oh, we don't
really use that branch anymore"), or even get fancy with some sort of
LRU algorithm.

Steve

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