How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread David Aldrich
Hi We are running a svn 1.7 server. One of our repositories contains an artefact that is 4GB. It consists of a set of regression test results that we want to version control. This artefact changes infrequently - say every month or two - but it's enormous size is causing concern for IT Manage

RE: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread Grierson, David
Hi, Short answer - it isn't possible to remove revisions of a specific file from Subversion - once it's there it's there for ever. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303247/how-do-i-prune-old-revisions-in-subversion I'd question whether an artefact like you describe should be in revision contr

RE: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread Cooke, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: David Aldrich [mailto:david.aldr...@emea.nec.com] > Sent: 15 July 2013 10:09 > To: 'users@subversion.apache.org' (users@subversion.apache.org) > Subject: How to prune old versions of an artefact? > > Hi > > We are running a svn 1.7 server. > > One of our r

Re: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread Mat Booth
On 15 July 2013 10:09, David Aldrich wrote: > Hi > > ** ** > > We are running a svn 1.7 server. > > ** ** > > One of our repositories contains an artefact that is 4GB. It consists of > a set of regression test results that we want to version control. This > artefact changes infrequen

RE: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread David Aldrich
Hi Mark > For your uses, perhaps you could spin this artifact off into it's own > repository > (use "external"s from your main repo if required) and then you can archive > that repo off whenever necessary? That's a great idea, Thanks David > -Original Message- > From: Cooke, Mark [mai

Re: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag David Aldrich, am Montag, 15. Juli 2013 um 11:09 schrieben Sie: > One of our repositories contains an artefact that is 4GB. It > consists of a set of regression test results that we want to version > control. This artefact changes infrequently – say every month or > two – but it’s enor

Re: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

2013-07-15 Thread Thomas Harold
On 7/15/2013 5:49 AM, Cooke, Mark wrote: For your uses, perhaps you could spin this artifact off into it's own repository (use "external"s from your main repo if required) and then you can archive that repo off whenever necessary? Sound advice for any sort of large artifact, or in the case wh

Re: xml output changed - relative paths now appearing?

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Haley
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > What do you need the paths for? If it's by design that they are > relative now to the "current directory" you may have no other choice > than to either calculate absolute paths on your own using the > execution directory of Tortoise's svn

Re: xml output changed - relative paths now appearing?

2013-07-15 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Alexander Haley wrote: > Greetings all, > > My trouble is that the XML output seems to have changed with the 1.8.0 > subversion library. My interaction with Subversion is via the TortoiseSVN > software. > > (I have never emailed this group - I am completely willing

Re: xml output changed - relative paths now appearing?

2013-07-15 Thread Philip Martin
Johan Corveleyn writes: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Alexander Haley wrote: >> test, and compare the xml outputs. For me (on a Win XP 32bit machine), they >> differ in a very key fashion: >> >> "old" xml (just a leading excerpt) >> >> >> >> >path="C:\svnfocus\versions\version8\dev">

Re: xml output changed - relative paths now appearing?

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Haley
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Philip Martin wrote: > I could not get this to happen on Linux. Are you using the same path in > the checkout and status commands? Can you provide a complete recipe? > Something to do with drive letters, or case differences perhaps? > I am using WindowsXP - the s