[CentOS] Rescuing svn repo from *IDIOTS*
Mihai T. Lazarescu
mtlagm at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 15:09:53 UTC 2009
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:55:24PM +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> A moron has checked in a DVD iso into subversion.
>
> How can I undo the damage, and make the repo a sensible size again?
I fully understand the grief.
Out of the top of my head you can use 'snvadmin dump' to get an
(even larger) dump of the repo as a single file. Then feed
it to svndumpfiler to reconstruct the repo and filter out the
excess commits. For me it worked as advertised.
> Also, is there a cunning way to get subversion to say: "Oi! Moron!
> This file is huge, you can't check it in!" ?
There are so called hooks server side that get triggered by
the check in/out/etc. It may be possible to look at the size
of the changes and reject the operation based on thresholds.
I have never tried that, although.
Hope this helps.
Mihai
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