Re: Deleting revision from an archive file?

[Donald Sharp]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:36:57AM -0500, Olaf Meding wrote:
> Donald,
> 
> Is there a way to delete old revisions from an archive file?
> 
> 
> > ... why would you want to get rid of revisions ...
> 
> It is not me, but the person handling nightly builds.  So he has files that
> get updated daily, with some of these having almost 400 rev's (one per
> night) and growing.

Sure but so what.  If he is always using the latest version
that is the version that is stored.

donald
> 
> 
> Olaf
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Sharp [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:52 AM
> To: Olaf Meding
> Cc: info-cvs mailing list
> Subject: Re: Deleting revision from an archive file?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:20:56PM -0500, Olaf Meding wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to delete old revisions from an archive file?
> 
> Yes, but why would you want to get rid of revisions.  They
> are a history of the file and the changes that went into
> them.
> 
> >
> > Some of our files have too many (more than 100) revisions.  Is there a way
> > to delete old revisions, say the first 50 (rev's 1.1 thru 1.49)?
> 
> How is that too many?
> 
> What is your real goal?
> 
> donald
> >
> >
> > Thanks much in advance for your help.
> >
> > Olaf
> >
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