Remove (obliterate) trees from subversion repository

cyco — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:22:39 +0000

If you need to wipe all traces for some objects in your svn repository, you can do something like this:

# svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH | svndumpfilter \
$string | \
svnadmin load REPOS_PATH_NEW
# mv REPOS_PATH REPOS_PATH_backup && REPOS_PATH_NEW \
REPOS_PATH

Getting started with Subversion

cyco — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:51:47 +0000

Today I thought about how to have different revisions of my project documentation which is a condition precedent to my degree.
After weighting up CVS and Subversion I decided to use Subversion.
It wasnt such short like it looks here to get all the needed informations together. Anyways, here it goes:

# apt-get install subversion subversion-tools
# mkdir /advdrv/svn
# svnadmin –fs-type fsfs create /advdrv/svn
# addgroup subversion
Adding group `subversion’ (1003)…
Done.
# chgrp -R subversion /advdrv/svn
# chmod -R o-rwx /advdrv/svn
# chmod -R g+rw /advdrv/svn
# chmod g+s /advdrv/svn
# adduser waja subversion
Adding user `waja’ to group `subversion’…
Done.
# adduser –system –home /advdrv/svn/ subversion
adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
Adding system user `subversion’…
Adding new user `subversion’ (112) with group `nogroup’.
Home directory `/advdrv/svn/’ already exists.
# su -c “/usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /advdrv/svn/” subversion
# apt-get install websvn
$ svn import projectdoc svn://localhost/projectdoc/ \
-m “Initial Version”

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Remove (obliterate) trees from subversion repository

Getting started with Subversion