Hello I need to delete a file permanently from my repository, since it was added by mistake and is very big. I understand this is not a very easy thing to do, and is related to the project of an 'svn obliterate' command.
I seem to have found a simple workaround for my problem, and I would very much like to share it for comments. Suppose the current revision is 200 and the big file was added in rev 100. I can use the dump / load scheme of svnadmin, taking care in skipping revision 100 during the process: svnadmin dump -r1:99 oldrepos > rev.1-99 svnadmin dump -r101:200 --incremental oldrepos > rev.101-200 svnadmin create newrepos svnadmin load newrepos < rev.1-99 svnadmin load newrepos < rev.101-200 I only wonder if the "--incremental" option will work even when merging non-contiguous revisions. Please note that in revision 100 only the big unwanted file was added. Thank you for your help -- GFS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Giorgio F. SIGNORINI, PhD Dipartimento di Chimica tel: +39-055-457-3085 Universita` di Firenze via della Lastruccia, 3 email: giorgio.signorini "at" unifi.it I-50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) Italy http://www.chim.unifi.it/~signo My PGP key: http://srv.chim.unifi.it/~signo/signo.asc ------------------------------------------------------------------------
