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Gemasoft
Asked: 2020-01-12 08:52:03 +0800 CST 2020-01-12 08:52:03 +0800 CST

Delete files without a trace in commits in Subversion

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Some files were uploaded to my repository by mistake and I would like to know if there is any method to delete them completely since if I delete them and commit them, the history that they were once there is still left.

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    Apparently it can be done, but it's not trivial. It is explained in this document (in English) .

    There is an "issue" to be able to have a command svnadmin obliteratebut it is not yet supported.

    The way to do it for now is (free translation of the previous link):

    In the meantime, the only way to do this is by using a svnadmin dumprepository, filtering the result by svndumpfilter(excluding the path you want to delete), and then a svnadmin load. There are more details in chapter 5 of the Subversion book .

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  2. At the moment it is not possible. There is a feature request to create the command svn obliteratethat in theory would serve what you need, but unfortunately the issue has been open for a long time and there seems to be no new news about it.

    However, there is the possibility of directly manipulating the dumps to achieve something similar.

    using svnadminandsvndumpfilter

    svnadmin dump <repo-name> | svndumpfilter exclude " <file-to-remove> " > <backup-file-name>

    Then the new repository is created and the dump is imported as follows:

    svnadmin load <repo- name> <backup-file-name>
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