On Jan 31, 2011, at 03:33, Echlin, Jamie wrote: >> What you're looking for is an "obliterate" function. That's >> been discussed a number of times in the past, and never been >> successfully pursuied. > > The last update I've seen about the obliterate feature imply that it's > been abandoned for the medium-term: > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-08/0457.shtml
According to that message, because work on WC-NG was more important for 1.7. But I haven't been following the dev list so I don't know what else was said. > Yet Julian Foad appears to be doing a talk about just this feature in > 1.7 at "Subversion Live" - > http://www.wandisco.com/events/subversionlive2011/agenda. Julian Foad is, I believe, an employee of WANdisco, the company that seems to be behind that event, and which recently announced their intention to implement various long-outstanding feature requests and bug fixes in Subversion. Perhaps the talk is about their continued desire to implement obliterate, or perhaps some renewed successes at doing so. https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_subversion_to_wandisco_1 > So, will it be in 1.7? This is the ticket for the obliterate feature request: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516 It is listed as "unscheduled", meaning it is not slated to appear in any particular version of Subversion at this time. 1.7 is already full of WC-NG so I would expect the devs to want to move any other major changes to the next version. There also have not been any comments in that issue since 2009; if someone were working on implementing it, I'd hope the ticket would so indicate.
