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

From: patrick <Patrick.Wyss_at_mobilesolutions.ch>
Date: 2007-07-23 10:35:27 CEST

Andy Levy wrote:
>
> which means we're subject to lots of Sarbanes-Oxley review. My
> auditors would not be pleased if there was an easily-accessible way
> for people to permanently remove things from Subversion - they were
> absolutely giddy when they heard that that people (other than the
> repository admin, who needs to go to quite a bit of trouble) can't
> delete elements AND their history.
>
> if I lost this measure of control, their faith in my change-control
> procedures and monitoring would be shaken.
>

1. as pointed out by others it should be an admin only feature.
2. you have the same problem with dumpfilterload

i think we should not spend to much time on thinking about solutions that
deal with malicious admins. this is not a problem that can be solved by
subversion...

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