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Re: Scrubbing data from CVS repository
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Jim Hyslop |
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Re: Scrubbing data from CVS repository |
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Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:51:45 -0400 |
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Scott Gifford wrote:
> find ~/cvs -type f |xargs perl -pi 's/my_password/***********/g' *
>
> Could that damage anything, or is it relatively safe? And will it
> have the effect I want, which is to make any version of the project
> checked out contain asterisks instead of the password?
That should work. Make sure you back up the repository first (and also
make sure you can restore from said backup!).
If I may suggest an alternative: if the other developers don't need the
history of the files, you could export the latest version to a working
directory, scrub the working directory, then import the files into a new
repository as version 1.1. Just a thought.
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Jim Hyslop
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