[SVN-1260] svnadmin annihilate/delete

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: svnadmin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 25/Apr/03 11:53
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:40
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

We have a huge amount of data in CVS (currently our main cvsroot is
2GB).  Every so often it makes sense to clean some of this out .. for
example copies of open source projects may get put in CVS while we
produce a patch, but then forgotten about afterwards.

In some cases it may make sense to completely destroy these files and
directories, prehaps to save disk space on whatever drive holds the
repository.  With CVS it's fairly easy to simply remove them from
CVSROOT (obviously this is something you do with great care since if
people actually have checkouts of these files it gets a bit
confusing).  I can't see any way of achieving the same effect with SVN.

Another use-case might be when you've just imported a large external
project, and realised that you've made a mistake .. you've imported
the wrong version, or whatever.

Obviously creating per-project repositories would solve this issue,
but it might be nice to have the 'annihilate' option.  Clearly this
would be a 'use with great care/don't use at all it completely defeats
the point of version control' type option, but I still think SVN might
benefit from it's existance.

Original issue reported by swhite

Issue Links

• duplicates: SVN-516 svn obliterate