Re: Deletion of Branches(Folder and Files) from SVN server
Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Sep 2024 05:46:14 -0400
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> There is a time where the "immutable history" becomes too expensive. >> Spending skull sweat trying to work past the inability to delete >> obsolete branches or commits also becomes overwhelming. At some point, >> at least with Subversion, you have to archive the old repo, keep it >> only for reference, and start over with a clean entirely new repo >> populated only by a copy of the contents, not of the history. > > > That's the answer! This is the case for the Subversino repo of subversion itself. It's gotten impossibly large and cannot be completely mirrored with ordinary tools anymore.