Re: How to prune old versions of an artefact?

On 15 July 2013 10:09, David Aldrich <David.Aldrich_at_emea.nec.com> wrote:

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> We are running a svn 1.7 server. ****
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> One of our repositories contains an artefact that is 4GB. It consists of
> a set of regression test results that we want to version control. This
> artefact changes infrequently – say every month or two – but it’s enormous
> size is causing concern for IT Manager, as the svn database is slowly
> increasing in size.****
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> I would like to prune very old versions of this artefact from the server’s
> database. I realise that pruning is not generally a good idea for a
> version control system, but this is an exceptional case.****
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> What is the current status of pruning in svn, i.e. how can I do it?****
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> Best regards****
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> David****
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Hi David,

For the cost of your time and your IT Manager's time that he has spent
worrying about it, he could have just bought some larger disks ;-)

I think the canonical way to accomplish what you want is to use a dump
filter, see this section of the manual:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svndumpfilter.html

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Mat Booth
Software Engineer | WANdisco
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