Re: Pruning old revisions

On Jul 17, 2008, at 13:22, Matt Benic wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is it at all possible to prune old revisions in a repository with
> Tortoise? We have two repos, one for code and one for art. Artists
> tend to have a very different approach to using the repository and
> between their very frequent commits and large binary files the repo
> grows quite quickly and it would be great to kill off older
> revisions that will definitely never be reused.
>

Well, you could dump the repository starting with the oldest revision
that still interests you (let's call that Y) and then load that into a
new repository and have everyone check out fresh working copies from
there.

svnadmin dump /repo/old -r $Y --deltas > repo.svndump

      --> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re31.html

svnadmin load /repo/new < repo.svndump

      --> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re36.html

You should probably *not* make use of --force-uuid in this case since
the new repo will truly be a new and different repository because of
the change in the number of revisions. Everyone will have to check out
new working copies.

See also

     --> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#dumpload

This may or may not actually make things smaller. If, for example,
you have a lot of tags of revisions before Y, then these will no
longer be "cheap copies".

     --> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html#svn-ch-4-dia-3

// Ben (bpsm)

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Received on 2008-07-17 13:48:02 CEST