In a message of Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:25:45 +0100, Jacob Hallén writes: <snip>
>While I am fine with dropping older revisions of just about everything in >extradoc, I wonder if it wouldn't be better better for the future to keep >this repository in svn format. That way you will only get one copy of >everything when cloning the repository. > >Jacob I'm not fine with the dropping of older revisions. One of the chief benefits for me of moving to a version control system was that I could feel comfortable ruthlessly condensing my writing, knowing that if I ever wanted this stuff later -- say to use in a different document, I could always go back and get the old revision that contained the wonderful words or diagrams I now propose to cut. And this has happened in the past, where early versions of things I wrote ended up raised out of the grave of the repository to live on as part of completely different documents. I'm not going to be comfortable deleting stuff this if I think that the grim reaper is out there, just waiting to purge all my earlier attempts once some document is deemed to be 'final'. So I either won't delete stuff, or I will go back to my old practice of having dozens of versions around 'just in case'. I'm fine with continuing to have the extradoc managed by svn, though I really want a script that runs nightly looking for things in extradoc that have a mimetype of binary and complains about this. Laura _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
