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Re: the obliterate discussion - why dumpfiltering is no valid workaround

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_smartgames.ca>
Date: 2007-07-21 18:44:34 CEST

On 20-Jul-07, at 7:05 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:

> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> writes:
>> I took it the other way. Financial transactions need a real audit
>> trail so there's a good argument for saying that mistakes and their
>> corrections should be tracked forever. But that situation doesn't
>> have much in common with an open-ended storage system like subversion
>> where what goes/stays should be entirely based on local policy and
>> not
>> forced by technical difficulty.
>
> Oh, true.
>
> But there are situations where one does want real obliterate: many
> corporations need the ability to remove a document from version
> control completely because they were never supposed to have had it in
> the first place (i.e., legal concerns).

So you'd have to eliminate all backups too...

--T

>
> -Karl
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