Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread Ravi Roy
Hi, I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease the size of the repository, but this is not true. To verify this, I check the size of the repository before adding 30 MB data into into, after adding I again checked the size of the repository it is still the same.

Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ravi Roy wrote: I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease the size of the repository, but this is not true. You can not delete anything irrevocably, this is a design karma of Subversion. In other words, even a deleted file is only

Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread vishwajeet singh
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ravi Roy ravi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease the size of the repository, but this is not true. It only get deleted from current version, file still exists in earlier revisions. To

Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread Erik Andersson
Hi Yes, it is a feature, not a bug. The whole point of using a repository is that you can always go back to a previous revision, so the file needs to still be there. Cheers / Erik On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Ravi Roy ravi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was curious to know if deleting a

Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread Ravi Roy
2010/4/20 Ulrich Eckhardt eckha...@satorlaser.com On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ravi Roy wrote: I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease the size of the repository, but this is not true. Thanks to all of you for quick replies. Suppose somebody added a big

Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

2010-04-20 Thread vishwajeet singh
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ravi Roy ravi.a...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/20 Ulrich Eckhardt eckha...@satorlaser.com On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ravi Roy wrote: I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease the size of the repository, but this is not true.