storing binary blobs, or otherwise synching them

[Eddy Petrişor]

On 31/08/06, Eddy Petrişor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, now I realise you were talking about the vapourware code which
should truncate; implementing a similar mechanism for truncate
(keeping empty old revion numbers) would also workaround the problem
(if that problem is there by SVN's design).

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Regards,
EddyP
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