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Why isn't obliterate an essential feature of Subversion?

For some years now, I'm waiting for Subversion to feature a "delete permanently" (obliterate) function. I hesitate to make the transition to Subversion (coming from Visual SourceSafe :p), because I think this is an essential feature, as otherwise…
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Freeing up space in my SVN repository

I have an SVN repository hosted on a freemium site with a maximum repository size. As I approach this capacity I am aware of files I've checked in that I know I can remove permanently to free up disk space. How do I tell SVN that a file can not only…
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Perforce: Remove empty folders from depot with command-line console (p4)?

I need a way to get empty directory paths from command-line and to remove (obliterate) them from the depot. For automation purposes, I've been trying to use p4 dirs directory-path to get the paths, but this command outputs 'No such file or…
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How can I completely remove a perforce stream integration

My mainline stream still thinks the development streams needs a merge down, even after I obliterated the last changelist, and I will appreciate some help to fix that. Story in short: My mainline stream (named Main) has 2 development streams, one of…
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filter a lot of sensitive code from an svn repository

I'm aware of the whole dump|filter|load, obliteration etc. issue. And I agree that normally you don't really have to delete files from history. However I have what I think is a special case. For the past few years my team was working on a few iOS…
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P4 - Purge File State

I'm doing a script for clean history and revision of selected files. I change the FileType of a binary file to binary+S3, so this file will now just keep the 3 last revision. When i use this method i always see on my depot files history of others…
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See Perforce Command-History per User

We are trying to figure out a mysterious p4 obliterate command. Is there a way to see the command history at the server, from which client was it issued, etc? Does the history information being stored some where? Thanks.
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