When you say "because of space problems the commit failed", you mean these
large files aren't actual revs in db/revs, but are just in uncommitted
transactions? If so, you can easily clean them up:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.rmtxns.html
Jason Malinowski
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lichvar [mailto:rlichvar_at_sainc.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Removing "Bad" Revs
>
> I think I've asked this before, but let us ask it again.
>
>
>
> We have one person who tried to commit an entire, very large (1+ GB),
project
> to a multi-project repository (using TortoiseSVN). Because of space
problems
> the commit failed but we were left with a huge rev file. Then this person
> tried it again! Now we have two (2) very large, useless rev files eating
up
> nearly 2.5 GB of disk space between the two of them. If we could safely
> remove those two large files, it would give us some breathing space while
we
> accomplish the migration to a new SVN machine. Any suggestions for the SVN
> admin newbie on how that can be done w/o doing a dumpfilter?
>
>
>
> Rich Lichvar
>
> Systems Administrator
>
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>
> Strategic Analysis, Inc.
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