Question

Probably this is a very easy question, but I did not find yet how to delete all files present at the moment in a external SVN repository.

I can delete just one file using:

svn delete -m "delete README" http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/README

But now I want to delete all of them. I thought about a script which gets the list of all the files of the repository and afterwards deletes them one by one, but this is tedious. Do you know a simpler solution?

I also tried:

svn rm http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo
svn delete http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/*

But nothing

Thanks

Answer 1

You could do a shallow checkout and then delete all.

Example:

svn checkout --depth immediates http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo myworking_copy
cd myworking_copy
svn rm *
svn ci -m "Deleting all"