version/revision control software for things mostly not source

Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov rambiusparkisanius at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 21:20:20 UTC 2010


Hello,

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> 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

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