Andy Levy wrote:
> On 3/23/06, Talha Oktay <toktay@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know that it is possible to delete a directory or project via
>> giving a url to a svn delete command. On the other hand, when I
>> import the same project to the same url I see that it is still
>> revisioned. How can I delete a url/project completely along with
>> everything related to that, history etc. I often create small
>> projects and after finishing the job I want to get rid of everything
>> along with it because I have to keep all the related work in my
>> company's configuration system.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#removal
I've had this discussion with CVS, VCC, Perforce, and other source control
system admins. The theory is that a source control system deletes nothing,
ever, nohow, shouldn't be done.
In practice, some idiot always puts in a typo and creates an erroneous
project in the wrong place, and doesn't want to waste the disk space or log
confusion if someone else goes to previous revisions and accidentally gets
the wrong file. This is particularly important for private, internal
information that should not be accessible to others using the repository,
especially the sys-admin. (I always did love explaining to people that
having NFS clients means that a local root user can pretend to be them and
access every file in their NFS home directory, which is why you don't run
NFS on a public network. Explaining that to an MIT computer science
professor was..... amusing.)
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Received on Fri Mar 24 03:46:29 2006