On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:39 AM Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> Mark
In particular, it would delete the history of the repository.
Subversion design is focused on the idea that *no client* can delete
history.
Received on 2019-06-08 04:06:06 CEST