Comments on: Delete parts of subversion history

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:43:16 +0000

You will need to do 2 dumps in this case I think.

svnadmin dump /path/to/current/repo -r1:224875 > svn.dumpa
svnadmin dump /path/to/current/repo -r224876:HEAD > svn.dumpb
svnadmin create /path/to/new/repo
svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo < svn.dumpa
svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo < svn.dumpb

Your svn # numbers will be off by one. To avoid this do a blank commit after loading dumpa.

Note: I have not tried this.

By: abhilash

abhilash — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:08:45 +0000

Hai,
I need to delete particular revision from history. Actually I have mistakenly tagged in worng folder. I have deletd the folder from svn. But in history still its showing. How can I delete that history.
eg: revision no. 224876

Please reply. It will be very helpful.

By: House of Code

House of Code — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:29:28 +0000

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Subversion Obliterate has been a much wanted feature for many years now, yet it is not even planned or mentioned on the Subversion roadmap. Discussions have been going on and money has been waving, yet still no movement towards a concrete implementatio…

By: Darren G

Darren G — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:44:12 +0000

This helped me. I am runing SVN on a windows serverSince I envisage doing this on a regular (but infrequent) basis I thought I would throw together a batch file to help me along with it. The text of it is below if anyone is interested:

@echo off
REM check inputs

if %1x==x goto abortusage
if %2x==x goto abortusage

REM check Path

if not exist “%1″ set msg=”The Path to the repository (%1) does not exist!”
if not exist “%1″ goto abortusage

REM Delete any older dump temp files
if exist “.\tmp” rd “.\tmp” /S /Q

REM get the last version number
svnlook youngest “%1″ > mrr.txt
REM read the line from the MRR file
for /F %%f IN (.\mrr.txt) DO set svnlast=%%f

echo ————————–
echo Last Revision was %svnlast%
echo ————————–
REM Dump
svnadmin dump “%1″ -r%2:%svnlast% > svn.dump

REM copy the currnt live to a tmp
mkdir tmp
XCOPY “%1\*.*” ./tmp

REM delete original
rd “%1″ /S /Q

REM create a “new” repository
svnadmin create “%1″

REM reload
svnadmin load “%1″

By: Joshua L. Davis

Joshua L. Davis — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:40:46 +0000

Thanks!