Is it possible to delete a file from subversion repository completely including the history? The problem are illegal files without the needing copyright.
How can I do it?
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5Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560684/svn-obliterate – Jagmag Nov 19 '10 at 10:00
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No, sorry. This is the much planned but not-yet-implemented svn obliterate feature on the mailing list.
The best you can do is to take a complete repository dump with svnadmin dump, filter out the files you want to remove and then svnadmin load it into a clean repository. There is a script svndumpfilter included in the distribution; I don't think that can filter out individual files as-is but it's a good starting point. As far as I remember the script can't cope with --deltas dumps, though, so you might have to stick with --incremental.
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