[darcs-users] BIG Mistake

[Jamie Webb]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:33:58PM -0500, Jorey Bump wrote:
> I have a nice little repository of source code to which I added a huge directory of binary resources. I then worked on 
> several revisions of the source code and decided that I didn't need the binaries, after all. None of the source code is 
> dependent on the existence of the binary files in any of the revisions. Unfortunately, this leaves me with a HUGE 
> repository for what was once efficient text. How can I erase all evidence of the unused directory containing the 
> binaries without losing my record of changes? Is there a simple way to do this, or must I pull up to the unwanted patch 
> and repeat the process, copying only the desired code and recording the patches with each step?

If there are no dependencies, you can just 'darcs obliterate' the
patch in which you added the binaries. Otherwise, yes you'll need to
remove the depending patches too and re-record them.

-- Jamie Webb