Re: Deleting a revision

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:31:32 +0100, Glen Barnes <barnaclebarnes@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this isn't something that you _should_ do under normal
> circumstances but I need to know how to delete the history of a file up
> until a certain revision. What happened was that I committed a settings
> file that some login details under a username/password field. I updated
> the file in revision 3 to use a generic username/password for when I
> distribute the application. However before I think about opening up the
> subversion repository for others to browse I'd like to delete the old
> references if I could.
>
> Of course I could change the passwords , etc but I would also like to
> delete the history from the repository.
>
> Is there anyway to do this (easy _or_ hard)?

You can delete all history before some revision by dumping that repo
from that revision on, then loading it into a new one:
svnadmin dump -r 3:HEAD oldrepo > dumpfile
svnadmin create newrepo
svnadmin load newrepo < dumpfile

All the revision numbers will be shifted down by two (e.g. r5 becomes
r3), and revisions before 3 will be inaccessible.

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bd
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