Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ravi Roy <ravi.aroy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2010/4/20 Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com>
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> On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ravi Roy wrote:
>> > I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also
>> decrease
>> > the size of the repository, but this is not true.
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> Thanks to all of you for quick replies. Suppose somebody added a big chunk
> of data to repository by mistake and want to delete that from all revisions;
> is there a way exists to achieve this ?
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yes there is a way out, you need to use svnadmin dump and dumpfilter the
revisions which you don't want any more.

> -RR
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