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Re: store only the most recent revision(s) of a document in SVN

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-05-23 01:42:18 CEST

On 5/22/06, Betty Li <li_betty@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have some MS Word/Excel documents that we want them to be shared by
> a few people. These few people should have read/modify access to the
> documents but they should not step on each other's toes. So we need a
> "lock-modify-unlock" tool for these documents but we really don't need to
> store all the revisions of the documents (maybe only the last revision
> or last three revisions need to be stored). Can I use Subversion to
> acheive this goal? Is there a way in Subversion to specify that only the
> last three revisions are stored and all previous revisions should be
> deleted?

No, there is currently no way to have subversion do that, and adding
such functionality would be complex.

-garrett

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