> On Jun 7, 2019, at 8:15 AM, Miller, Christopher M CIV USARMY MEDCOM AISR (US) > <christopher.m.miller217....@mail.mil> wrote: > > > > I'm cleaning up Subversion repos that got spread out by accident and going to > upgrade Subversion from v 1.6.11 to a newer version on a new RHEL7 VM. > > There are repos that were created that are either no longer used or were > created haphazardly. The daemon is on and I can grep successfully from the > CLI. > > I'm trying to use the following command via the CLI to delete a repo: > > svn delete -m "delete repo that is no longer needed" > file:///data/svn/dept_A/test > svn: 'file:///data/svn/IMO' isn't in the same repository as > 'file:///data/svn/dept_A/test' > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.delete.html > > I've also tried to use the ip address too and got this error message: > > svn rm svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A/test -m "delete repo" > Authentication realm: <svn://192.168.5.49:3690> > 678af798-5732-4a81-9cfb-4040117c6091 > Password for 'user': > svn: 'svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A' isn't in the same repository as > 'svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A/test' > > I was able to delete another repo via TortoiseSVN with no issues, and leave a > comment. However I would feel more comfortable doing the cleanup the CLI. > > Can someone advise me on what I'm doing incorrectly or is there another way > to do this?
Subversion does not provide an API or command to delete a repository. To delete a repository you need direct access to the filesystem and you simply remove the folder for the repository. TortoiseSVN can only delete a local repository where it has this sort of access. It is not possible to do it via the server protocol. Mark
