[wp-hackers] Plugin repository issue

[Rich Pedley]

On 29/08/2010 23:04, Matt Jacob wrote:
> On 8/28/10 11:21 AM, Rich Pedley wrote:
>> Well I deleted a lot of the old (keep a local copy in case anyone ever
>> needs it of course).
>
> You probably don't even need to keep a local copy unless you *really*
> want to. With SVN, nothing is ever really deleted---it's just deleted as
> of a particular revision number. The repository still has full knowledge
> of everything that once existed, though.

True, but that would then involve me looking up how to retrieve things 
each time I needed to. And no point telling me now how to, because the 
likely hood of anyone asking is virtually zero. But no doubt in the 
distant future someone will ask, by which time I will have forgotten...

Rich