I have a SVN repository that has stuff from Bin directory ( .exe , .dll , .pdb ). I would like to clean up the repository to erase those file and to prevent them to come back. How can I clean the repository (without going file by file, directory by directory)? How can I prevent to add these file? (In SVNTortoise I have added a Global ignore pattern to *.exe *.suo *.pdb /Debug/* but it doesn't seem to work fine.

You will need to delete and ignore those files. There isn't a direct way to do it, as the ignore property does not apply recursively down the directory paths. make sure you have tortoisesvn installed checkout the repository path you need to modify to a local folder use a find tool to find files, like *.dll, inside the local svn copy I recommend find in total commander , press alt-f7, specify a search criteria, search once the search is done, press "feed to listbox" select all files with ctrl-a right click (by default in total commander you need to do a long right click for the context menu) select the option tortoisesvn -> delete and ignore list -> delete and ignore xx items by extension tortoisesvn mass ignore http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/5207/20090716104211.png the same can be done with directories Now you've achieved: in each selected path, the file extensions you've ignored, will be ignored in the future, don't commit those files, ignore them

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Patrick Desjardins

Reputation: 140983

Remove a specific file from a Subversion repository?

I have a SVN repository that has stuff from Bin directory (.exe, .dll, .pdb). I would like to clean up the repository to erase those file and to prevent them to come back.

How can I clean the repository (without going file by file, directory by directory)?
How can I prevent to add these file? (In SVNTortoise I have added a Global ignore pattern to *.exe *.suo *.pdb /Debug/* but it doesn't seem to work fine.

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

Mercer Traieste

Reputation: 4678

You will need to delete and ignore those files. There isn't a direct way to do it, as the ignore property does not apply recursively down the directory paths.

make sure you have tortoisesvn installed
checkout the repository path you need to modify to a local folder
use a find tool to find files, like *.dll, inside the local svn copy
I recommend find in total commander, press alt-f7, specify a search criteria, search
once the search is done, press "feed to listbox"

select all files with ctrl-a
right click (by default in total commander you need to do a long right click for the context menu)
select the option tortoisesvn -> delete and ignore list -> delete and ignore xx items by extension

tortoisesvn mass ignore http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/5207/20090716104211.png

the same can be done with directories

Now you've achieved:

in each selected path, the file extensions you've ignored, will be ignored
in the future, don't commit those files, ignore them

Upvotes: 6

jeroenh

Reputation: 26792

As the original question was in fact how to clean up the repository (and there may be valid reasons to do so: legal, or repository size blowing up), I would like to add that the only way this can be done is by dumping a repository to a file (svn dump), filtering the contents with 'svndumpfilter' and reloading it into a new repository:

Upvotes: 2

segfault

Reputation: 5939

Those files weren't supposed to be in the repository. Only put in what you need to build the executable (source code + makefile).

I would suggest that you place the source and the executable in different directories, and only checkin those in the source directory.

For the deletion part, don't bother. Just create a new revision without those files.

Upvotes: 0

Remove a specific file from a Subversion repository?

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