[rancid] Rancid - keep backup/config files/SVN revisions no older than X days

[Mariusz Kruk]

On 17.01.2020 19:18, john heasley wrote:
> Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:47:56AM -0800, Dragan Vucanovic:
>> I'm new to Rancid, just started playing with it.
>>
>> Is somehow possible, when newer config file of same device exist, to keep
>> only newest version, or it's already configured by default ?
> not really - saving the config history is part of the majick.  one (you)
> could write a script to periodically look at the CVS or SVN history and
> delete all revisions besides the latest.  this would not work with git,
> afaik.
Nope. That's the whole point of the versioning system - to keep track of 
old versions. In case of SVN you can't just delete old revisions (you 
can try to do some weird stuff like dumping only selected revisions and 
load it into a new repo but it's silly). It's not how it's supposed to 
work. BTW, a question to the original poster - what would be the point 
of such action? If you just want to keep one "offline" copy of your 
devices config, I suppose you could try to hack rancid-cvs not to use a 
repo altogether but what for?