RE: How to avoid cluttering the svn repository with several versions of compiled files

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:19 PM
> To: Dymetman, Marc
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: How to avoid cluttering the svn repository with several
> versions of compiled files
>
> Don't bother putting the built items into Subversion. You can't easily
> remove revisions of files once they're in the Subversion repository.
> Thus, binary builds can clutter up the Subversion repository and
> greatly increase the amount of diskspace you need.
>
> Instead, setup a non-Subversion release repository where people can
> pull off these built versions.
>

That makes sense, but it's not that common a practice, and often
rebuilding old revisions can be a real nightmare when all you want is an
old release to test a bug or re-send to a customer.

Nobody complains about storing 'source' images in SVN, and they often
clutter up the repository more than generated binaries, so I don't think
the solution is to workaround it by not storing binaries.

Instead I'm hoping svn obliterate will appear sooner rather than later
and fix this problem for everyone :)

------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=2253546

To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_subversion.tigris.org].
Received on 2009-05-14 11:21:27 CEST