Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: I suspect the answer will be NO, Correct. but any chance I can export only a subtree of the repository (along with its history) and import into a new repositorym so to avoid having binaries? Or any chance to force

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-06 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Andy Goth andrew.m.g...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/4/2015 6:06 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:02 PM, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca mailto:dma...@ryerson.ca wrote: Just be careful not to shun 0 length files or you won't be able to commit a 0-length

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-05 Thread Andy Goth
On 8/4/2015 6:06 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:02 PM, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca mailto:dma...@ryerson.ca wrote: Just be careful not to shun 0 length files or you won't be able to commit a 0-length file until you've cleared the shun table (because all 0-length files have

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread David Mason
On 4 August 2015 at 06:09, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=/shun In that case you

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:02 PM, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca wrote: But it's a reasonable way to remove binaries that you don't want. Indeed - my point was only that shunning as a feature is _primarily_ intended as a way to remove sensitive or malicious stuff. Just be careful not to

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Sergei Gavrikov sergei.gavri...@gmail.com wrote: I know one, that's 'The Infinitely Profitable Program' http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 :-) To summarize: GO.COM contained no program bytes at all – it was entirely empty. However, because GO.COM was empty, but

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=/shun shunning is the only way to remove something and should be considered a last resort

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Sergei Gavrikov
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:02 PM, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca wrote:   Just be careful not to shun 0 length files or you won't be able to commit a 0-length file until you've cleared the shun table (because all 0-length files have the

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Sergei Gavrikov
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Sergei Gavrikov sergei.gavri...@gmail.com wrote: I know one, that's 'The Infinitely Profitable Program'   http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 :-) To summarize: GO.COM contained no program bytes at all – it was

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=/shun shunning is the only way to remove something and should be considered a last resort option. Thanks, but not quite what I was searching for: I need to remove a full

Re: [fossil-users] forget binary files

2015-08-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: Hi, this may sound stupid, but once I've mistakenly committed binary files, is there a way to remove them from the repository at all? My attempt is (i) to not version such files and (ii) reduce repository size. see: