Re: Q: how to remove a project within the repository?

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Aid Voigt - DSP Solutions <aid.voigt@dspsolutions.de> writes:
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> No. The repository is designed to *never* lose information. At best,
> you can remove things from HEAD, but they'll always exist in history.
>
> Someday we'll have fancy tools to do what you want -- see issue #516,
> 'svn obliterate'. But it's a big bag of worms.
>
> For now, you can 'svnadmin dump' the repository, edit the dumpfile to
> remove all mention of a file or directory, then 'svnadmin load' the
> data into a new repository. Someone is working on an 'svndumpfilter'
> program right now to help with this sort of thing.

It is usable at the moment with one big exception, that is I am not completely
sure what kind of chaos will ensue if you filter out nodes from which there
exist copies elsewhere in repository.

I'm quite unsure what to do with this issue. I can relatively easy filter out
these copied nodes, but the opposite - i.e. block filtering out copy sources
requires two passes over dumpstream.

Please find my other messages in the archive.

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