Re: Remove old revisions - merge old revs into one?

Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 02:39, Michael Schmarck wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to merge all the "old" (however that's defined)
>> revisions into one and then dump everything that's been done
>> before that "old" rev.?
>>
>> Reason: I don't really need to keep a history of everything
>> back to "day 1".
>
> That's not a good reason.... :)

Depends.

> The repository stores things efficiently, storing only changes
> between revisions.

That's much. I store binary files in the repo, so it always has
to store a complete file.

> So you probably won't gain much by deleting part
> of the history, and you lose a lot -- the history! In some cases,

The history doesn't mean much at all to me. I can very well do without
it.

> even ends up much larger. (Cheap copies can become non-cheap, for
> example, if the source of the copy goes away with your deleted
> revisions.)

I don't do cheap copies.

> The tools to accomplish the deletion of revisions are svnadmin dump,
> svndumpfilter, and svnadmin load, if you're curious, but as I said, I
> don't recommend you doing this.

That effectively means to recreate the repo, doesn't it?

Michael

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Received on 2008-08-22 13:20:35 CEST