Fwd: omitting history?

Forwarding to the list, accidentally replied only to Karl before.

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From: Andy Levy <andy.levy@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2006 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: omitting history?
To: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>

On 1/15/06, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:
> Is it possible to tell subversion *not* to store history for certain
> files? Or to "obliterate" changes for certain files after they have
> been made? Perforce can do this (p4 obliterate), for example.
>
> For our project (TeX Live), we have many megabytes of binaries we need
> in our tree, the diffs for which will unnecessarily consume a whole lot
> of resources.

Have you tested this out yet? IIRC subversion does store diffs of
binary files, so you may not be consuming multiple megabytes for each
revision.

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Andy
http://home.rochester.rr.com/alevy/
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