On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> 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 qazw...@gmail.com
