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Re: Not able to delete a repo from the CLI for Subversion

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 08:39:30 -0400

> On Jun 7, 2019, at 8:15 AM, Miller, Christopher M CIV USARMY MEDCOM AISR (US) <christopher.m.miller217.civ_at_mail.mil> wrote:
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> I'm cleaning up Subversion repos that got spread out by accident and going to upgrade Subversion from v 1.6.11 to a newer version on a new RHEL7 VM.
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> There are repos that were created that are either no longer used or were created haphazardly. The daemon is on and I can grep successfully from the CLI.
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> I'm trying to use the following command via the CLI to delete a repo:
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> svn delete -m "delete repo that is no longer needed" file:///data/svn/dept_A/test
> svn: 'file:///data/svn/IMO' isn't in the same repository as 'file:///data/svn/dept_A/test'
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> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.delete.html
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> I've also tried to use the ip address too and got this error message:
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> svn rm svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A/test -m "delete repo"
> Authentication realm: <svn://192.168.5.49:3690> 678af798-5732-4a81-9cfb-4040117c6091
> Password for 'user':
> svn: 'svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A' isn't in the same repository as 'svn://192.168.5.49/dept_A/test'
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> I was able to delete another repo via TortoiseSVN with no issues, and leave a comment. However I would feel more comfortable doing the cleanup the CLI.
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> Can someone advise me on what I'm doing incorrectly or is there another way to do this?

Subversion does not provide an API or command to delete a repository. To delete a repository you need direct access to the filesystem and you simply remove the folder for the repository. TortoiseSVN can only delete a local repository where it has this sort of access. It is not possible to do it via the server protocol.

Mark
Received on 2019-06-07 14:39:37 CEST

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