Re: Another request for obliterate...

André Pönitz wrote:
> Tim Hill wrote:
>
>>Apart from all the oddities that David mentions,
>>what are the *real* needs for obliterate? I can only think of a few...
>>

<snip>

>
>>My vote on obliterate is NO.
>
>

I think the original request for obliterate was to deal with very large
binary files, earlier versions of which are surplus to requirements.

My understanding is that svn doesn't try to store deltas for binary data
the way it does for text (source) files. IIRC it stores the entire file
each time.

If that is correct, there might be an argument for Binary_Obliterate.

The caveat for such a facility would perhaps need to be along the lines
of admin-only and oyohbi

Thinking about what I wrote above, maybe binary files could be marked by
the user as "only_store_the_latest_version_obliterate_all_previous". If
so, there would be no need for an obliterate anything.

2.2c

Mike

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Received on Fri Apr 15 08:17:22 2005