On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:39 AM Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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
In particular, it would delete the history of the repository. Subversion design is focused on the idea that *no client* can delete history.
