Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@oasis-open.org> writes:
> You're mistaken about SVN missing the feature to permanently delete
> ("obliterate") repository contents. It's just that it is not a user function.
> Rather, it is an administrator function -- available since version 1 at
> least. The repository administrator would use svndumpfilter to take a
> repository and filter out the bad commit(s) and pipe that into a new
> repository. You don't want to do this all the time because it takes skill and
> effort, but it's supposed to be a low occurence event. The absence of a
> user-level 'obliterate' function is considered a feature, not a bug by the
> svn developers.
Well, many of us consider the lack of a convenient 'obliterate' command
to be a bug, see http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516.
However, there's a workaround, and designing the feature would
actually be non-trivial, so we haven't done it yet.
-Karl
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Received on Tue Oct 9 20:21:48 2007