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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Bruno, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you don’t want or need all these revisions, have you
considered cutting back on how often rancid runs. Running only once a day may
meet your needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You can delete revisions in CVS. However, the revision numbers
will continue to increment (will not start back at 1.1). See the CVS docs and
look at the –orange option. I would only consider this if there was a
disk space issue that you were dealing with. The documentation includes
numerous reasons why this is not a good idea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You could also consider creating a branch every month and then adjusting
rancid to check into the new branch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruno Costa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [rancid] Erase older config revisions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I´m
kinda of new to Rancid and I need help…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My
network is consisted by several equipments, which on a daily basis are configured
several times. Problem is, at the end of a month or 2 the number of Rancid
Configs revisions are by the hundreds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is
there a way to erase or delete older revisions while keeping the most recent
ones? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thkx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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