>> I'm concerned that users (admins) won't downdate all wc's ... > > During the Aachen hackathon we brainstormed a bit about obliterate, > and figured it would be wonderful if a client, acting on a working > copy, could detect that "history has been changed". Even if only to > give an fatal error message "your working copy is broken, please check > out a new one". > > So, how to detect that a working copy and the repository have a > different idea of history, so we can error out loudly and clearly? > > Can it be done with current svn features?
Assuming a repository admin is concerned about this, wouldn't they just use svnadmin setuuid to give the repository a new UUID? Technically that is what that is for and would immediately accomplish this goal. Mark
