One of my office developer uploaded videos to svn repository.Few days later he removed those videos but svn repository still showing very large sige.How could i decrease svn repository size.
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Your question is answered in Apache Subversion FAQ:
"How do I completely remove a file from the repository's history?"
Apache Subversion (and other version control systems) is designed to keep all the history. Removing files from repo history is commonly considered as a complicated task and not really a good thing. That's not the task which you can easily accomplish.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2050475/delete-file-with-all-history-from-svn-repository – Vadzim May 31 '16 at 05:58
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SVN keeps revisions if you delete them. See http://www.svnforum.org/threads/35631-permanently-delete-file to delete the files permanently.
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2@bahrep Citation needed. For those of us that have never visited but might come across it in the future, *why* is svnforum the worst place to ask questions? – Eight-Bit Guru Sep 11 '12 at 10:23
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Huh? What does that mean? Does this response answer the question or not? The official SVN FAQ (http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal) also mentions the same steps. – gammay Sep 11 '12 at 10:24
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1@Jonners, svnforum is the worst place to ask *general questions about Apache Subversion*. Seems that they discuss their own, ehm, Wandisco Subversion, lol. – bahrep Sep 11 '12 at 10:41
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1@gammay, You've provided the link to a thread from 2008, that points to SVNBook 1.4 (while the latest one is 1.7). That's confusing. – bahrep Sep 11 '12 at 10:45
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@bahrep, Thanks for the clarification. I agree to this point that referring to an older version is misleading. But the actual answer is still valid for the current version. – gammay Sep 11 '12 at 11:08
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@bahrep, there are general Subversion categories on svnforum, as well as WANdisco specific areas. In fact, the general troubleshooting area is by far the busiest. – Mand Beckett Sep 11 '12 at 11:52
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Just in case someone browses this topic several years later: a file or directory can be removed from subversion - you make dump, you filter dump, you restore filtered dump. For more details see https://stackoverflow.com/a/6025750/1727132
