[cvsnt] Re: Remove old files from the repository?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sun Jun 12 16:13:43 BST 2005


Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> BTW, is there any way to retrieve the file data in this scenario:
> - Revision 1.1 is a normal file, with data
> - In revision 1.2 the file is removed, so the revision is "dead"
> - I delete revision 1.1 of the file
> 
> Now I have only the dead revision 1.2. The data that was in 1.1 is
> completely gone, right?
> 
Because of the way the storage works that's not the case.. the HEAD 
revision always contains the full text of the file, even if it's 'dead'. 
   That means that revision 1.2 was empty (being an unchanged delta) anyway.

Tony



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