On 21-Jul-07, at 2:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Toby Thain wrote:
>>>
>>> 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...
>
> Only if you want to stay out of jail.
Mark Phippard hints at some other shortcomings of 'obliterate' in his
blog,
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2007/07/second-chances-.html
For instance, a problematic/offensive/illegal commit could well be
logged in many places, and the data in question may well exist in
many working copies. It might be very hard to put the genie back in
the bottle. (To which inevitably someone will respond, "so you're
saying we shouldn't even try?")
--T
>
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> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell@gmail.com
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