version/revision control software for things mostly not source

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:34:19 +0300, 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.

svndumpfilter may help.  It also helps if you give each project it's own
repository, but then the administration costs of setting up all the
separate repositories are going to be non-negligible.