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My God!
Where did you hear that?
The exact opposite is true, and is shouted loudly as a benefit of
Subversion.
On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> 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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