On 15 July 2013 10:09, David Aldrich <david.aldr...@emea.nec.com> wrote:
> Hi**** > > ** ** > > We are running a svn 1.7 server. **** > > ** ** > > One of our repositories contains an artefact that is 4GB. It consists of > a set of regression test results that we want to version control. This > artefact changes infrequently – say every month or two – but it’s enormous > size is causing concern for IT Manager, as the svn database is slowly > increasing in size.**** > > ** ** > > I would like to prune very old versions of this artefact from the server’s > database. I realise that pruning is not generally a good idea for a > version control system, but this is an exceptional case.**** > > ** ** > > What is the current status of pruning in svn, i.e. how can I do it?**** > > ** ** > > Best regards**** > > ** ** > > David**** > > ** ** > Hi David, For the cost of your time and your IT Manager's time that he has spent worrying about it, he could have just bought some larger disks ;-) I think the canonical way to accomplish what you want is to use a dump filter, see this section of the manual: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svndumpfilter.html -- Mat Booth Software Engineer | WANdisco http://www.wandisco.com
