On 20-Jul-07, at 10:03 AM, patrick wrote:
>
> hi there,
>
> yep i know there has been a lot of talk about the obliterate
> (completely
> remove, purge, erease, zap...).
> and yes i know there is a workaround called dump-filter-load.
> the only problem is that the workaround just does not work!
> nope it doesn't.
> it specifically does not work when you have inexperienced users ...
> i'm talking hundreds of files, hundreds of nodepaths, gigs of disc
> space.
Problem of education? If they don't know what kind of system they're
using, this might be the least of your problems...
>
> everybody who tried to dumpfilter it knows that it can be hours of
> error-prone work ...
>
> if i had just one wish it'd be a non-blocking (or very shortly
> blocking ;-))
> svadmin obliterate MYREPOS *.log
I don't want to pre-empt the experts, but I think a rationale against
such a thing can be made. For one thing it's a powerful regret-
generator (dangerous tool, think rm -rf but on your repo(!). Typing
error?) It -should- be hard to destroy data; a version control system
is designed to keep it safe. It's a bit like asking for openable
windows on a space capsule.
>
> at least would it be possible to have some "dump grep sed-awk
> dumpfilter
> load" thing which does the work (my solution involves and cygwin-
> grepping
> and ultraedit, not the worlds most elegant solution...)
--T
>
> best regards for any help with this
> patrick
>
> ps: and by the way for all monthy python fans: jehowah
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