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Re: How to remove a revision from the achieve

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:23:03 -0400

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Eckard Klotz <eckard.klotz_at_t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> Unfortunately I have added something wrong into the my svn archive. I know
> that it is possible how to remove it from the users content. But the file is
> still part of the archive and I want to undo the adding of the file.
>
> Is it possible to remove it from the whole archive again by deleting the
> last revisions?
> Or it is possible to copy an archive just until a specific revision with a
> command like hotcopy?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eckard Klotz.

Simple answer: not without setting up a new Subversion repository,
with a new URL and the revision excluded, and making all your clients
switch to it.

The functionality you're looking for is the "obliterate" function. It
is perhaps the oldest feature request for Subversion, and it has never
been successfully implemented.
Received on 2016-08-29 16:23:15 CEST

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