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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by po...@tigris.org on 2008/12/08 18:31:26 UTC

setting maximum number of revisions kept?

Hi,

I have seen posts regarding the maximum revision number (2^32) but I was wondering if there was a way to limit the number of revisions saved for a particular file. I have some large (100MB or so each) binary files that I'd like to save in Subversion. They change frequently but I'm only ever interested in the last 5 revisions for example.

TIA
John

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Re: setting maximum number of revisions kept?

Posted by Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 13:31,  <po...@tigris.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen posts regarding the maximum revision number (2^32) but I was wondering if there was a way to limit the number of revisions saved for a particular file. I have some large (100MB or so each) binary files that I'd like to save in Subversion. They change frequently but I'm only ever interested in the last 5 revisions for example.

Subversion presently has no mechanism for doing this. Once it's in the
repository, it's there for good (unless you forcefully remove it with
svnadmin dump/svndumpfilter/svnadmin load, which is like doing brain
surgery with a butcher's knife).

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Re: setting maximum number of revisions kept?

Posted by Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 13:31,  <po...@tigris.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen posts regarding the maximum revision number (2^32) but I was wondering if there was a way to limit the number of revisions saved for a particular file. I have some large (100MB or so each) binary files that I'd like to save in Subversion. They change frequently but I'm only ever interested in the last 5 revisions for example.

Subversion presently has no mechanism for doing this. Once it's in the
repository, it's there for good (unless you forcefully remove it with
svnadmin dump/svndumpfilter/svnadmin load, which is like doing brain
surgery with a butcher's knife).

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