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Re: Archiving Projects

From: allan juul <allan_at_muly.dk>
Date: 2006-04-23 23:07:14 CEST

Bryan D. Andrews wrote:
> We have a repository that has a lot of older projects not in use
> anymore. We would like to make a copy of the repository and then clean
> out the current repos with only the most current projects. Is this a
> correct approach (as opposed to trying to start with a fresh repos)?
>
> Our repos is about 5 gigs right now and without the dead projects and
> their history its probably a quarter of the size.
>
> Is there any info / any links that someone could direct me to on this?
>
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i think you have to decide why you want to clean. is it because you want
to save disk space or is just to get a "cleaner looking" repository ?

if the former, then you have to realize that the the svn db never really
shrinks only gets larger and larger no matter what you commit.

if the latter, then it's probably a matter of style or taste. we
actually created a "recycle bin"-project in our root, so people
(including non-developers) had one last chance to view what's being
deleted in an quick way. after that we delete the "recycle bin"-project
itself.

./allan

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