From users-return-5155-apmail-subversion-users-archive=subversion.apache.org@subversion.apache.org Mon Oct 04 13:16:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 16717 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2010 13:16:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 4 Oct 2010 13:16:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 19813 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2010 13:16:12 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 19553 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2010 13:16:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@subversion.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 19541 invoked by uid 99); 4 Oct 2010 13:16:09 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:16:09 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of qazwart@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.43 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.216.43] (HELO mail-qw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.216.43) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:16:04 +0000 Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so3804333qwj.16 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:15:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8ud21WQA0YsM7zHQyZkJ3z4RJm1HIpmHI3uXVoFJjDg=; b=jLmL4jpr0SWDko4kxqAvBEJz6J/WLEvO2xj9pPj/eVjyeZ0KaPSxlsMWYjn6+DRwk+ bgf5F4kOkVxSruFs4DVkHqCnkURjozc6OVzPabUdffQ/F/4bhVlEW3IVJyTaxjhmCWCC OOFM2AfjI8gLCvGfaKXG1wRWK17pD/gBQ0CYs= 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=DrEDJ+SUglX7mT7fS5XQPQo+uNjJC8XFVkItRMlRo1mOpUQPKAvnm82dDEDoohEEzw T7m6J13kRzUdR7TBK6OkSt+03gm2Hfo4uLa23ZJhL9QfijIpwOj6UuFkhzO9zWERCzxA wUznUC7Ox0EuF4EAzR/RI3ga1BdK7m+/S5GnA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.192.195 with SMTP id dr3mr843313qab.185.1286198143245; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.231.82 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:15:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9B21F0BBE52BF74DBA71AB889C021DD703559D60@exisland01.omnifone.com> <4C9B644B.7080304@gmail.com> <20100923170031.GC7384@daniel3.local> <4C9B8E0C.3030800@gmail.com> <20100924031857.GA20373@lp-shahaf.local> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Best way to "un-version control" a file? From: David Weintraub To: Bob Archer Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia , Daniel Shahaf , Les Mikesell , "users@subversion.apache.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bob Archer wrote: > As a users I think this would be useful... but I would not put it at the top of my wish list. If I "really" need to get something out of the repo it is possible with dumpfilter. Yes, but a dumpfilter means taking your repository down while you dump, filter, and reload. Normally, I don't remove revisions from my repository -- even when a developer tells me they made a mistake. I tell them to do a revision delete and commit. However, if that accidental commit contains inappropriate business information (one user accidentally committed their resume), or proprietary business or customer information, I do want to remove that revision as quickly as possible. In a big shop, such a request may come in once or twice per month. Unfortunately, with Subversion, I simply have to tell the user they might have to wait a month or two when I have time to actually do a dump and reload which means the information they wanted to destroy is now in the backups. The lack of such a feature obviously hasn't hurt Subversion's popularity, but it is a feature that almost all other version control systems have that Subversion is missing. (And, don't get me started about true tags either!). -- David Weintraub qazwart@gmail.com