David Huang wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:26:18 -0500:
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >> Yes, the feature has its use case. And if you'd like to see it
> >> implemented yesterday, that's cool. Just don't assume that everyone
> >> thinks the same way please.
> >
> > Can you actually name anyone who thinks it's not a useful, or
> > potentially useful feature? Anyone?
>
> I suspect what was meant is that not everyone thinks obliterate needs
> to be "implemented yesterday" or that it's the "#1 request". I do
> think obliterate would be useful, but I personally have not ever
> needed it in my 2 or 3 years of administering an SVN repo, and don't
> forsee needing it in the future.
>
/me nods
> Also, it's not like the SVN team has rejected the feature; the FAQ
> mentions that it's planned:
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal and there's even
> a roadmap for it:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf//subversion/trunk/notes/obliterate/plan-milestones.html
Work was started in trunk (conditioned on the compile-time
-D SVN_WITH_EXPERIMENTAL_OBLITERATE switch), but it hasn't been touched
in the last few months. I wasn't aware of the latter URL, but it
contains a "milestones (achieved/planned)" table which I assume is
accurate.
Received on 2010-09-24 11:56:25 CEST