On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:34 PM, amol gole <moleman...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Rajnish, > > 65GB isn't that large in terms of memory cost today... do you think your > repo access is slow because of the size and is that the reason you want to > delete files? > > I'm new to SVN so I'm not 100% sure this is an option but what if you > created a new repository and seeded it with a "recent-enough" version of > your current repository? > > AG
Hi, Rayish. What you're looking for is an "obliterate" function. That's been discussed a number of times in the past, and never been successfully pursuied. It's tricky, and potentially dangerous to a database or change history to rip out selected files or directories. The only practical way to do it right now, inside Subversion iteself, is to do a complete repository dump and reload to a new repository, excluding the relevant files or directories entirely. Look up the "svndumpfilter" command and its examples in the Subversion book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. When you do this, you *will* want to switch your user's working copies to tthe new, stripped down repository using the "svn switch --relocate" command or its equivalent with your particular toolkit.
