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Re: [TSVN] Possible to delete bad files from repository permanently?

From: Matthias Wächter <matthias.waechter_at_tttech.com>
Date: 2005-10-10 18:25:43 CEST

Warren Kinny schrieb:
> Greetings.
>
> We have been using Tortoise SVN for a while, and someone within
> the company accidentally uploaded about 800 files to the repository.
>
> We have since deleted them locally and re-committed - however this
> means they are permanently taking up space in the repository..
> (otherwise how could you go back and revert to a previous
> version after a deletion normally ? )
>
> So is it possible to actually delete these files from the repository for
> the few versions that they were sitting there ? (in other words have it
> so it's as if they were never added at all)

SVN comes with a script tool named svndumpfilter - look at the
Subversion docs how to use it to remove unwanted revisions.

- Matthias

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