Cleaning the SVN repositories removing old states that are not needed

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Hello all,

In our server we are getting out of space... :((

There are several things in our repositories that occupy a lot of space and that should not be there.

i.e. if a cdrom has to be made for the customer this is placed inside the repository and of course, if it gets versioned, then another copy of it is placed inside.

The subversion repository here is used for two reasons:

1. SHARE: getting the different users to access the desired files in the network.
2. LAST VERSION: endure that via an update call one can get the latest version of the code.

version history is interesting until the program has been finished, at that point, it would be interesting to be able to navigate the history and remove the changes for, let's say some versions, or from the first to the 10th version, or directly being able to remove some old files.

Is that possible?

Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:

Posted 1-Feb-12 0:36am

Joan M

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-02-01T00:47:00

The nature of the Subversion storage system and probably other Revision Control System's storage is this: you can delete whatever you want, but no information is deleted, ever. This is the whole point of the system.

Out of space or not… do whatever you want, but don't give up your code base history. The repository is all in one place, you can move it on any other disk without any risk. I think the cost of new disk is ridiculously small compared to the cost of lost code base, even the history. So, what's the problem?

—SA