From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 21:20:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE2F1065672 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f199.google.com (mail-qy0-f199.google.com [209.85.221.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB718FC16 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk37 with SMTP id 37so3731289qyk.8 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:20:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=vkCdTa36URJT5mcpYeQx0e9UP9FKoSrWtld5+F2iwwQ=; b=Jz7D5+CZeZOS2q2uLkZv4wjdChPg9sG51nQRsXsVRkDKoxRxsbqoSl2P/dxZKgRA6K nefLOufjwW6nc/dlUUZVaj1yllwv3NTlPeKkyA/q2ZvG1T9Xf12IlSamS/gtZCmHySca mk0V0FtPmbPdrU6rH1tuNfu8mYsjuyWMFghuw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LgWVcvUgbmKcrDhaSOGPjk1Os1qsOzW9hCbDI+LSskcauhTXWJ+lOxKZ1T50tz5Qye uESzWxQmZKkUz2i7dhxPe3JZ+ZbwlOHr4olMwK+ZnvbcV9nk40WauO3X+3y+IeHICa4Q gWlqWqHbkH0awLW28+O6CwlxmPu+Io/PQiR90= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.61.14 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:53:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100418010523.M58298@brightstar.bomgardner.net> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:53:46 +0300 Received: by 10.224.35.163 with SMTP id p35mr1401015qad.6.1271624026158; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" To: Dan Naumov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Gene , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:20:20 -0000 Hello, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading > the "Version Control with Subversion" book... it seems there is no > actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing > repository? This sounds rather weird and annoying. What if I decide > that project XYZ is beyond redemption and abandon it, I delete the > working copy of it, but all history is still in there, gigabytes upon > gigabytes of data. With no way to remove it, it sounds like a really > big limitation. You can filter data out of a repository using "svnadmin dump" command. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com