On Jun 2, 2017, at 8:25, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I suspect you're going to hurt yourself if you try this sort of stunt. > Not that it might not work in theory for some cases, but it's not > tested and is against the basic "never, never, never, and did I > mention never alter history" approach to Subversion.
Why? The svn:mergeinfo property just kept track of what revisions have been merged from a given branch. If I delete the branch the information is useless, but there is no automatic cleanup of that property. > What I think you *can* do is an "svnadmin dump | svndumpfilter exclude > (obsolete branches) | svnadmin load" to another Subversion repo, and > switch to that repo to have a modified history. I don’t want to alter history. I want the older branches around so they can be browsed and inspected for history. I just want to clean up the svn:mergeinfo property so it’s easier to read. I would love for one of the Subversion developers to chime in here... Alfred