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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:15:30+00:00

I am using tortoise SVN for a project that I’m working alone and I

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I am using tortoise SVN for a project that I’m working alone and I have committed (by mistake) a huge file to my repository (a VC++ Intellisense Database). Now I want to remove this file from my repository to facilitate its backup.

Removing the file from my project and doing a commit (obviously) do not solve my problem as the previous version of that file are still there in the repository. Is there a way to solve this problem that does not involve the creation of a new repository?

EDIT

The @ryansstack solution worked perfectly, that is what I did (I ran the commands in the directory where my repository was located):

First I created a dump of my repository filtering that huge file:

svnadmin dump tcc | svndumpfilter exclude "/trunk/Image Segmentation/Image Segmentation.ncb"  > tcc.bak

Then I have created a new repository (tcc2) and ran the following command:

svnadmin load tcc2 < tcc.bak

Now the dump size of tcc2 is 7 MB versus 170 MB of tcc.

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal

    you can’t, quickly, but there is a way

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