[rdiff-backup-users] Discussion of poll winning feature: repository editing

[Ben Escoto]

For the people that voted for repository editing, what did you want
exactly?  Here's the first thing that crossed my mind:  you have a
repository at /repo and maybe a directory like /repo/dir that is
taking up too much space.  You could run something like:

        rdiff-backup-editor delete /repo/dir

that would delete /repo/dir and remove all history of it from the
repository.  It might also be possible to do something like:

        rdiff-backup-editor move /repo/dir /repo/newname

which would move /repo/dir to /repo/newname, and alter all the history
so that all the changes that took place in /repo/dir now seem like
they took place in /repo/newname.  Or what else did you have in mind?

Also more generally, why do you want to edit an existing repository?
Is it to save disk space?


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Ben Escoto

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