Re: Best way to "un-version control" a file?

Les Mikesell wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 16:19:55 -0500:
> I think the negative comments came from people who thought it would be a
> client option, not an administrative command.

Today it is a client command (as in: 'svn obliterate $URL'), with a hook
script that has to explicitly allow it (just like pre-revprop-change).

> Admins already have the
> capability through svnadmin dump/filter/load - it is really just a
> practical issue of that being too cumbersome for normal maintenance -
> and tricky when the thing you want to remove was moved around early in
> its life or edited into something you want to keep.

These issues exist for the implementation too: it's a different story to
forget about the last revision of a node than it is to forget about
a revision in the middle of a node's history.

> But, I agree that the implementation has to be done carefully. Even
> though I think the feature is important, I would not want to give up any
> reliability for it.

Yes.
Received on 2010-09-24 23:30:35 CEST