Removing files from repository

Hello,

I keep development projects on a repository repos1. I have decided to
move the directory repos1/vendor to a new repository, repos2. This is
because repos1/vendor keeps third-party libraries for many projects and
it is growing large in size. The question is: once the contents of
repos1/directory have been moved to repos2, can repos1/directory be
deleted? I want this because it would reduce substantially the size of
repos1 and there is no interest in the history of repos1/directory.

I thought of

        svn merge -r 323:1 ${REPOS}/vendor

        svn commit

But this will not really remove the files, it will just take it out
from the head revision.

On p. 50 of the Subversion Handbook there is a mention of future
development of svnadmin obliterate. This would be a welcome feature. It
would be the closest to removing a module from a CVS repository.

In the meantime, is there any workaround to accomplish the permanent
deletion?

Sincerely, Sancho Neves-Graca

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Received on Sat Oct 4 22:35:08 2003