Les Mikesell wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 16:19:55 -0500: > I think the negative comments came from people who thought it would be a > client option, not an administrative command.
Today it is a client command (as in: 'svn obliterate $URL'), with a hook script that has to explicitly allow it (just like pre-revprop-change). > Admins already have the > capability through svnadmin dump/filter/load - it is really just a > practical issue of that being too cumbersome for normal maintenance - > and tricky when the thing you want to remove was moved around early in > its life or edited into something you want to keep. These issues exist for the implementation too: it's a different story to forget about the last revision of a node than it is to forget about a revision in the middle of a node's history. > But, I agree that the implementation has to be done carefully. Even > though I think the feature is important, I would not want to give up any > reliability for it. Yes.
