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GlossaryGlossaryPosted Apr 6, 2010 19:32 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Glossary by dark Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap
"Obliterate" sounds actively evil... and it makes some sort of sense only in a world in which you have separate files with timelines, synchronized only by time. Not my view of a project's history... (but then again, I'm accustomed to git's view).
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Obliterate Posted Apr 6, 2010 22:43 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] By accident, I just found a way to do exactly this with git... look at removing sensitive data. BTW, this is quite a bit more flexible, as it allows to do arbitrary changes to the file in the history, not just erasing it. Yes, it is somewhat messy, and requires git-fu (not too much, fortunately); but then again, this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill operation either. Sure, before-change downstream repos will suffer when updating. Old contents at clients will stay put, but a centralized VCS like SVN isn't that different in this respect.
Glossary Posted Apr 6, 2010 23:07 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
> "Obliterate" sounds actively evil...
Sure does. I kept thinking of "Obliviate" from the second Harry Potter movie.
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