RE: Another request for obliterate...

> * First of all, I agree with Ben Collins-Sussman. This
>should be done through svnadmin and not through the svn
>client. Users have no reason to be able to access a
>command that does irreversible damage to the archive.

Absolutely. Only an admin should be able to run this command. This case is
truly with many other version control software packages.

> As mentioned by Karl Fogal, there are at least two separate
>commands being talked about. Command #1 removes a particular
>version of the file/archive (let's call it "rmver"). Command
>#2 removes all entries to a particular file from all versions
>of the archive (let's call it "obliterate").

rmver is the most important of the two. I have rare needs to obliterate all
instances of a file. Past threads on the mailing list had a group where bad
content (due to a license, I believe) was committed. So, it may be nice to
have both.

Thanks,
Josh

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Received on Sat Apr 16 18:24:26 2005