On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM Blake McBride <bl...@arahant.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> There is a time where the "immutable history" becomes too expensive. >> Spending skull sweat trying to work past the inability to delete >> obsolete branches or commits also becomes overwhelming. At some point, >> at least with Subversion, you have to archive the old repo, keep it >> only for reference, and start over with a clean entirely new repo >> populated only by a copy of the contents, not of the history. > > > That's the answer!
This is the case for the Subversino repo of subversion itself. It's gotten impossibly large and cannot be completely mirrored with ordinary tools anymore.
