Re: Faking obliteration

In a message dated: 15 Jul 2003 21:22:59 +0200
Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?= said:

>Is there a way to obliterate information from a repository, perhaps
>automatically? I'd like to permanently remove a certain file from the
>repository. To do so, it would be acceptable to rebuild the directory
>from scratch, skipping all information relevant to that file, or to
>operate on the repository directly.
>
>Can anybody give hints on how to achieve that?

Try:
    svnadmin create /path/to/new/repo

    svnadmin dump /path/to/repo | svndumpfilter path/to/obliterate | \
      svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo

That *should* work. I think :)

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