Fwd: nuclear lauchcodes and nuclear waste

[James Blackwell]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:32:45PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Jeff Hodges wrote:
> > I was wondering, besides editing files and deleting weaves, will there
> > be (or perhaps is there) a way for bzr to remove files of "nuclear
> > lauchcodes and nuclear waste" (as jblack aptly described them) from
> > archives in the future?
> > --
> > Jeff
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what bzr is going to have (forcing a revision to
> become a ghost is a little bit tricky.)
> 
> But I just posted a [PLUGIN] to the list (which didn't get any hits),
> where I specifically implemented the ability to remove unused revisions
> from the store.

To be honest, I don't think that this sort of plugin would get much
normal use. Its the sort of thing that a person usually doesn't want at
all... until that particular moment that they want it a _lot_.

Don't worry. Somewhere, sometime soon, there will be a Homer out there
with glowy green stuff screaming "DoH!"

> The plugin is here:
> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/plugins/clean-weave/
> 
> And the command is 'bzr clean-branch' optionally
> 'bzr clean-branch --all'

Should it generally be considered safe or can it have intended, but not
generally predictable, side effects?


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