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Reputation: 155

Subversion Repository has weird files in it

I am managing a TortoiseSVN application rollout for a number of software developers.

An administrator has created a test repository for me to test before rollout and there are a number of directories here that I didn't create (or at least I don't remember) nor do I have access to modify the files in those directories.

Here are the directories: conf, db, format and hooks

There was a post were someone else ran into something like this (however I don't have enough posts to make a comment to their post, so had to create a new post).

Unusual Subversion Folders Appeared After Update

I'm not understanding how a repository could have been created to the Subversion server from TortoiseSVN. I don't have access to the server, just the application. I'm not able to right-click from Windows7 and the TortoiseSVN Repository Browser and create a new repository within a repository.

And can I go ahead and remove these files and not cause any issues?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 555

Answers (1)

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97345

the directories: conf, db, format and hooks

It's server-side tree, you have don't worry about it, because for client-side usage you have to know (as SVN-admin tell about it) only URL of repository, how it correlate with physical tree on server isn't your question and headache

how a repository could have been created to the Subversion server from TortoiseSVN

No ways. TortoiseSVN is pure client-side tool, creating repository is server-side administrative job (unless you have some server's space mounted as local drive, in which on any empty folder you can use Create repository here)

>dir /b /s
z:\Repo

Create repository here magic on z:\Repo casted

>dir /b /s
z:\Repo
z:\Repo\locks
z:\Repo\hooks
z:\Repo\conf
z:\Repo\README.txt
z:\Repo\db
z:\Repo\format
z:\Repo\svn.ico
...

but from client side it's just

>svn ls -R -v file:///Z:/Repo
      1 Badger                июн 28 01:19 ./
      1 Badger                июн 28 01:19 branches/
      1 Badger                июн 28 01:19 tags/
      1 Badger                июн 28 01:19 trunk/

can I go ahead and remove these files and not cause any issues?

It depends. There you get these files? Inside Working Copy?

Upvotes: 1

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