Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ravi Roy <ravi.aroy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease
> the size of the repository, but this is not true.
>

  It only get deleted from current version, file still exists in earlier
revisions.

>
> To verify this, I check the size of the repository before adding 30 MB data
> into into, after adding I again checked the size of the repository it is
> still the same.
>
> Is this known feature ?
>

 Yes this is pretty much known, Subversion does not have a obliterate
command.

> Thanks
>
> -RR
>

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