Removing "Bad" Revs

[Richard Lichvar <rl...@sainc.com>]

I think I've asked this before, but let us ask it again.

 

We have one person who tried to commit an entire, very large (1+ GB),
project to a multi-project repository (using TortoiseSVN). Because of
space problems the commit failed but we were left with a huge rev file.
Then this person tried it again! Now we have two (2) very large, useless
rev files eating up nearly 2.5 GB of disk space between the two of them.
If we could safely remove those two large files, it would give us some
breathing space while we accomplish the migration to a new SVN machine.
Any suggestions for the SVN admin newbie on how that can be done w/o
doing a dumpfilter?

 

Rich Lichvar

Systems Administrator

IT Services Division

Strategic Analysis, Inc.

703.253.4753 (direct)

571.221.3430(cell)

703.253.4780 (fax)

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RE: Removing "Bad" Revs

[Jason Malinowski <ja...@jason-m.com>]

When you say "because of space problems the commit failed", you mean these
large files aren't actual revs in db/revs, but are just in uncommitted
transactions? If so, you can easily clean them up:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.rmtxns.html

Jason Malinowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lichvar [mailto:rlichvar@sainc.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Removing "Bad" Revs
> 
> I think I've asked this before, but let us ask it again.
> 
> 
> 
> We have one person who tried to commit an entire, very large (1+ GB),
project
> to a multi-project repository (using TortoiseSVN). Because of space
problems
> the commit failed but we were left with a huge rev file. Then this person
> tried it again! Now we have two (2) very large, useless rev files eating
up
> nearly 2.5 GB of disk space between the two of them. If we could safely
> remove those two large files, it would give us some breathing space while
we
> accomplish the migration to a new SVN machine. Any suggestions for the SVN
> admin newbie on how that can be done w/o doing a dumpfilter?
> 
> 
> 
> Rich Lichvar
> 
> Systems Administrator
> 
> IT Services Division
> 
> Strategic Analysis, Inc.
> 
> 703.253.4753 (direct)
> 
> 571.221.3430(cell)
> 
> 703.253.4780 (fax)
> 
>

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