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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:39:26+00:00

is there a commend to delete project from svn with all its revisions(total cleanup)

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is there a commend to delete project from svn with all its revisions(total cleanup) ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer is in the Subversion FAQ:

    There are special cases where you
    might want to destroy all evidence of
    a file or commit. (Perhaps somebody
    accidentally committed a confidential
    document.) This isn’t so easy, because
    Subversion is deliberately designed to
    never lose information. Revisions are
    immutable trees which build upon one
    another. Removing a revision from
    history would cause a domino effect,
    creating chaos in all subsequent
    revisions and possibly invalidating
    all working copies.

    The project has plans, however, to
    someday implement an svnadmin
    obliterate command which would
    accomplish the task of permanently
    deleting information. (See issue 516.)

    In the meantime, your only recourse is
    to svnadmin dump your repository, then
    pipe the dumpfile through
    svndumpfilter (excluding the bad path)
    into an svnadmin load command. See
    chapter 5 of the Subversion book for
    details about this.

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