On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:17:08AM -0000, Echlin, Jamie wrote: > > 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. > > Indeed, hence my question to the list. And yes, the conference is > sponsored by Wandisco, and so I am somewhat wary. > > It would be perfectly legitimate to only discuss progress of this > feature, and maybe that's what this talk is about. However because the > conference's headline is "World Premiere of Subversion 1.7", and because > the talk summary is "During this session, Mr. Foad will discuss > Obliterate, a new feature designed to cleanly remove obsolete files and > other data from Subversion repositories" the implication is that this is > in 1.7. If not then fair enough, but maybe this could be clearer.
There were plans to implement parts of this feature for 1.7. But because of technical difficulties work on this feature has been suspended for now. It won't be on 1.7. See http://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html for the authoritative source on such matters. The release status section lists all the items planned for 1.7. It says: The obliterate feature work made only extremely minimal progress, and does not carry enough practical usefulness to warrant release. See this thread for discussion. Where "thread" is a link to http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-08/0456.shtml Stefan
