Re: Mechanism to list files in SVN repository greater than certain size

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:43 PM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you looking for current versions or all versions of all file file?

 Thanks David, I was in fact looking for to restrict / inform people who has
put file greater than certain size in the repo. I think for future would be
better to write a hook which disallow file by size.
 I was looking for all versions of a file.
 -RR

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> The only version control system I know of which could do the latter was was
> ClearCase and only if you used dynamic views since that allowed you to "see"
> all versions of all files. And, doing something like that took forever.
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> Subversion doesn't really store individual files or versions because it
> works on the entire repository, so you couldn't even scan the repository for
> particular suspect files like you could in RCS or systems that use RCS like
> files.
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> The only way I know is to checkout, and scan. You could write a script to
> do like an "svn cat" and count the file size that way, but it wouldn't be
> any quicker.
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Received on 2010-04-16 05:42:13 CEST