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Re: svnadmin obliterate features

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_smartgames.ca>
Date: 2007-07-24 22:50:14 CEST

On 24-Jul-07, at 4:53 PM, Brent Webster wrote:

> I've been on vacation so let me weigh in now. I need the obliterate
> feature because I use svn as a product repository and not just a
> source
> code respository. Any artifact that is out in the field, I want to
> record it in a product lineup. These binary artifacts includes
> various
> compiled fpga loads, bios and flash images along with the
> C/C++/perl/bash source code.

And where does the need for obliterate come in?

--T

>
> As I understand it, the obliterate feature is difficult because these
> binary submissions are deltafied so a revision history is required to
> recreate them. Could we add an option to the checkin command to
> disable
> deltafy and checkin the complete binary file? The obliterate command
> would only work on this type of binary checked in files. The
> obliterate
> command would then nullify the contents of the file but keep the file
> around for revision history.
>
> Regards, Brent
>
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