Re: a simple recipe to 'obliterate' an item from svn repository

2012-03-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
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

Re: a simple recipe to 'obliterate' an item from svn repository

2012-03-16 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Your recipe should work, assuming the file was added in r100 and never changed or copied afterwards. You may pass --deltas to 'svnadmin dump' (no reason not to). It'll offset r101:r200 revnums by one in the new repository. Another way is to use svnsync with path-based authz blocking the file (an

a simple recipe to 'obliterate' an item from svn repository

2012-03-16 Thread Giorgio F. Signorini
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 mu

Re: Svn connection breaks

2012-03-16 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:29:05PM +, Schroeder, Hartmut wrote: > Hi * > > we work with remote Subversion Clients, connected to our Subversion-Server > (Version 1.6.16) via VPN-Tunnels. Some of them work fine, the connection to > others sometimes shuts down during checkouts or updates with t

Svn connection breaks

2012-03-16 Thread Schroeder, Hartmut
Hi * we work with remote Subversion Clients, connected to our Subversion-Server (Version 1.6.16) via VPN-Tunnels. Some of them work fine, the connection to others sometimes shuts down during checkouts or updates with the message on their Tortoise Client "Could not connect to server". In the Ap