Mad Scientist wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> >
> > Subversion supports that model by not making more copies of a file
> > than necessary: all revisions for which a file is the same share
> > storage. So, for files which change infrequently, you shouldn't be
> > hesitant to store them in your repository.
>
> But... there are files that do change frequently and files where old
> instances have no use at all - and it would still be nice to be able to
> use subversions's access mechanisms to store and distribute them. And,
> of course, it would be nice to have a reasonable way to undo accidental
> commits of things that don't belong in the repository at all or can't
> remain for legal or political correctness reasons.
>
>
> As an example I am working on a project that requiers an expensive and
> proprietary compiler(not by choice) and as the only coder on the project
> currently I am the only one with who is able to compile the files need
> to use the program. I was disapointed when I found I could not keep a
> compiled binary with the revision I checked in which could later be
> removed as the repo size expanded and older binaries were no longer
> needed and free space declined. The folder layout is already set by a
> 3rd party and would work very well if unversioned files were able to be
> distributed with svn commit and svn update to the other people working
> on the project.
Here is exactly another case where "unversioned files" would be the ruin
of anyone using them. Suppose you build at r10, and add the binary to
the tree. Then 10 revisions later, you build again. Now say _someone
else_ wants to go back and run the program as existed in r10. THEY CANT
because they will get the binary from r20!
Subversion was designed not to lose history and does a damn good job of
it. If anyone *really really* wants this functionality, they are
welcome to submit patches to the source (assuming they manage to
actually write a decent patch considering how hard something as "simple"
as `svnadmin obliterate` is ).
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Received on 2008-03-12 20:23:11 CET