Re: removing stuff from repository, permanently

Alexander Sabourenkov writes:
> Hello.
>
>
> As far as I know, there currently is no way to completely remove a
> part of repository, short of editing a dump file by hand or writing
> scripts to do that.
>

Whilst I can understand you wanting this, I've never seen it as very
important, and sometimes I view it as dangerous (basically, it allows
you to rewrite history, which I'm always wary of, even when it's done
with the best of intentions).

> I am about to start hacking on svnadmin and libsvn_repos to allow
> excluding selected paths when loading a dump file.
>

Ah, so you'd be removing stuff from the load into a _new_ repository.
Forget I said anything. :)

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