Re: Deletion of Branches(Folder and Files) from SVN server
On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM Blake McBride wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> >> There is a time where the "immutable history" becomes too expensive. >> Spending skull sweat trying to work past the inability to delete >> obsolete branches or commits also becomes overwhelming. At some point, >> at least with Subversion, you have to archive the old repo, keep it >> only for reference, and start over with a clean entirely new repo >> populated only by a copy of the contents, not of the history. > > > That's the answer! This is the case for the Subversino repo of subversion itself. It's gotten impossibly large and cannot be completely mirrored with ordinary tools anymore.
Re: Deletion of Branches(Folder and Files) from SVN server
Same answer! On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 4:46 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM Blake McBride wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > >> > >> > >> There is a time where the "immutable history" becomes too expensive. > >> Spending skull sweat trying to work past the inability to delete > >> obsolete branches or commits also becomes overwhelming. At some point, > >> at least with Subversion, you have to archive the old repo, keep it > >> only for reference, and start over with a clean entirely new repo > >> populated only by a copy of the contents, not of the history. > > > > > > That's the answer! > > This is the case for the Subversino repo of subversion itself. It's > gotten impossibly large and cannot be completely mirrored with > ordinary tools anymore. >
