storing binary blobs, or otherwise synching them

Eddy Petrişor eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 20:47:25 CEST 2006


On 31/08/06, Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ideally if subversion ever allows it, a truncated
> > feature would be nice for something like my volatile
> > repository.  If I could just say truncate history up
> > to 3 months ago, that would be cool!
>
> You can accomplish this with
> $ svnadmin dump -r LOWER
> then create a new repository
> $ svnadmin load
>
> (svnadmin dump will give you a complete first revision unless you use
> the --incremental switch)
>
> Although an svnadmin truncate option would be quite cool, because I
> think this will cause all of the revision numbers to change and
> working directories will probably break as a result.

Add to you advice the option to keep empty revisions for the ones
filtered out and you don't have that problem.

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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