On Mar 16, 2012, at 13:33, Giorgio F. Signorini wrote: > 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
You also need to ensure the new repos has a new UUID. That means use the "--ignore-uuid" flag on the first "svnadmin load" command. It also means everybody who has a working copy must check out a new working copy from the new repository once you're done.
