Re: Pruning out old revisions?

There's no EASY way to remove information in a Subversion repository.

What you need to do is do a data dump, filter the results, and then
reload the data into a new Subversion repository. Yes, it isn't fun.

You need to be on the repository host and use the "svnadmin dump"
command to dump the repository.

Once you do that, you can use svndumpfilter command to filter out the
unwanted revisions.

Once you have a filtered dump file, you can use "svnadmin load" to
reload your data into a new repository.

See <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.tk.svndumpfilter>
for more information.

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David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Gary Ansok <ansok_at_alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> I'm working on a project where we have several very large and very active
> Subversion repositories.
>
> Disk space is becoming an issue, and we're trying to find a way to remove
> old revisions while still keeping more recent ones available.
>
> Is there a way to do this without dumping and rebuilding the repository?
>  (Ideally, without changing the revision numbers.)
>
> Everything we've found so far indicates that we'll need the dump/rebuild
> cycle, but I thought I'd ask here whether there's something we've missed.
>
> Generating a list of revisions to keep (all revisions less than M days old
> or one of the most recent N revisions) or to remove shouldn't be an issue,
> I'm sure, but it's the actual cleaning up that seems to be difficult.
>
> We're using Subversion 1.4.6, and there are few if any branches in the
> repositories.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Gary Ansok
> ansok_at_alumni.caltech.edu
>
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