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RE: Delete *for real* from a repository

Author pilotbob
Full name Bob Archer
Date 2009-09-17 07:52:34 PDT
Message > Bob Archer wrote:
> >> I'm using SVN 1.4.4 on CentOS and I need - for administration
> purpouse
> >> - to delete *for real* a whole directory from the repository. As
> >> everybody knows, deleting using the "delete" command just adds a new
> >> revision, without freeing space on the disc. I googled my issue,
> >> reading that it's impossible to delete for real something on a
> >> repository, and a filtered dump with a following reimport is needed.
> >
> > With the current version you need to think of the repository as
> create/update only and plan for this in capacity planning. The bottom
> line is that things are going to be added to your repository that you
> don't want in there. If you go and dump/load every time this happens
> you are going to drive yourself crazy. You just have to be ok with it.
> >
> > There are many requests to add this, but frankly I consider it a low
> priority... at least for me. To others it is a high priority. I would
> rather see the developers would on stuff like WC-ng and better history
> for move/renames and perhaps better branch/merge functions like brining
> in some of the features of the svncopy.pl utility.
>
> Something that can only grow infinitely just does not seem well
> designed
> for real world use, even if in practice it often works out for a while.
>

Tell google that. They tell me I never need to delete email again and my mail space will grow infinitely. Think about how much a 1TB hard drive cost 3 or 4 years ago and how much it costs today.

Anyway... you still can trim your repo. I just don't think doing it every time someone is human and puts a file into it that really shouldn't be there.

However, a yearly or maybe even every other year dump/load to reduce the size of your repository is certainly reasonable. Yes, it would be nice to have a tool to do this faster than a dump/load. Yes, I would still put that tool at the bottom of my "wish list".

BOb

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Delete *for real* from a repository Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 02:18:47 PDT
     RE: Delete *for real* from a repository "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> 2009-09-17 03:06:25 PDT
         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 03:27:08 PDT
             Re: Delete *for real* from a repository ryandesign Ryan Schmidt 2009-09-17 03:59:13 PDT
                 RE: Delete *for real* from a repository "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> 2009-09-17 04:56:20 PDT
                     Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 05:54:23 PDT
                         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> Jo Support <jo dot support at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 06:18:33 PDT
                             Re: Delete *for real* from a repository stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-09-17 06:40:04 PDT
                                 Re: Delete *for real* from a repository hwright Hyrum K. Wright 2009-09-17 07:31:47 PDT
                                     Re: Delete *for real* from a repository stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-09-17 08:00:05 PDT
                                         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 08:12:08 PDT
                     RE: Delete *for real* from a repository pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-09-17 07:32:46 PDT
     RE: Delete *for real* from a repository pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-09-17 07:31:07 PDT
         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 07:46:59 PDT
             RE: Delete *for real* from a repository pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-09-17 07:52:34 PDT
             Re: Delete *for real* from a repository fweimer Florian Weimer 2009-09-17 08:32:53 PDT
                 Re: Delete *for real* from a repository levyam Andy Levy 2009-09-17 08:44:26 PDT
                 Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 08:51:57 PDT
     RE: Delete *for real* from a repository "Tony Sweeney" <tsweeney at omnifone dot com> "Tony Sweeney" <tsweeney at omnifone dot com> 2009-09-17 07:55:56 PDT
         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository russ at vshift dot com russ at vshift dot com 2009-09-17 08:08:39 PDT
             Re: Delete *for real* from a repository levyam Andy Levy 2009-09-17 08:25:55 PDT
             Re: Delete *for real* from a repository hwright Hyrum K. Wright 2009-09-17 08:35:13 PDT
                 Re: Delete *for real* from a repository David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 11:56:18 PDT
                     Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail dot com> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 12:21:25 PDT
                         Re: Delete *for real* from a repository Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-09-17 13:08:12 PDT
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