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Deleting files and folders permanently form Subversion repositories

Offline hasan

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Hello All,
                These days I am facing a very weird issue related to the subversion repositories of the people in my company. There are people here who have imported very big files in their repositories which are not meant to be in version control.
Though they have deleted them from their present version but it lies there on the server occupying huge space.

Now can any one tell me how to remove them.

Regards
Hasan
My software is not having any bugs,
It just does some random calculations intelligently :-)

Offline cactus

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Re: Deleting files and folders permanently form Subversion repositories
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2009, 02:13:13 PM »
Hello All,
                These days I am facing a very weird issue related to the subversion repositories of the people in my company. There are people here who have imported very big files in their repositories which are not meant to be in version control.
Though they have deleted them from their present version but it lies there on the server occupying huge space.

Now can any one tell me how to remove them.

Regards
Hasan
They will never be deleted from your server as they are part of the version number they were checked in. You will have to do some administration to remove them, but that is highly specific to subversion. See the subversion cookbook for subversion administration: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ , more specific: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html#svn.reposadmin
« Last Edit: July 18, 2009, 02:16:30 PM by cactus »
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Offline hasan

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Re: Deleting files and folders permanently form Subversion repositories
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2009, 03:12:11 PM »
Hey I found the way out, please see the link below:

http://blog.ploki.info/?p=91

Hurray :-)

My software is not having any bugs,
It just does some random calculations intelligently :-)

Offline cactus

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Re: Deleting files and folders permanently form Subversion repositories
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2009, 03:19:07 PM »
Hey I found the way out, please see the link below:

http://blog.ploki.info/?p=91

Hurray :-)
Yep that is the method I was referring to with the links to the manual.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth ~ Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Offline hasan

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Re: Deleting files and folders permanently form Subversion repositories
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2009, 03:27:25 PM »
Thanks alot Cactus ... Really appreciate your concern
My software is not having any bugs,
It just does some random calculations intelligently :-)