That's a great idea - I have a tigris project which uses a
svn-controlled directory as its actual webroot, so I have to commit
generated HTML files into the repo, and it does seem like a terrible
waste of DB space to keep all previous revisions of those generated
files.
On 9/20/06, Bastiaan Veelo <Bastiaan.N.Veelo@ntnu.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for Subversion!
> In short I would like the possibility to have some files or even
> directories in the repository and make Subversion just host them and
> forget about revisions when new commits are made. In other words, do not
> revision control them and only store the latest revision.
>
> I could not find anything about this in the docs or FAQ. This feature
> would be handy to easily make available various generated files. Two
> examples:
>
> 1) HTML documentation generated from program source by tools such as
> NaturalDocs or Doxygen, as part of the build process. With the correct
> mime-type this documentation can be read directly from the svn URL. But
> the HTML files do not need to be version controlled, as the source files
> already are.
>
> 2) Compiled example programs to illustrate a library. Visitors can
> quickly evaluate the product without having to checkout, satisfy
> dependencies, tweek Makefiles, build, etc., simply by pointing their
> browser to the trunc. Obviously, these program files need not be version
> controlled as their source already is.
>
> This feature could be implemented as a special property, say
> svn:no_history. Of course the history should not be completely erased
> when this property is set, but successive intermediate revisions could
> be discarded. Also, when set on a directory, new files should be
> automatically added.
>
> I am thinking whether this could be abused by a malicious user, but it
> is probably not more dangerous than the svn:ignore property.
>
>
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
> Bastiaan.
>
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