How to delete an SVN project from SVN repository

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Can anyone please suggest me how to delete complete SVN project from SVN repository  svn repository is in linux   I found  svn delete   but don t think it does the same  It only helps in removing files or sub-folders but not the entire project

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The correct sentence is  svnadmin deltify  PATH   do not forghet to delet the project or repository from the file svn-acl  if you use it   if you simply delete the folder of repository you may corrupt the svn directory depending on how your svn is configured in your environment

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There s no concept of  project  in svn  So  feel free to delete whatever you think belongs to the project

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It s easy to believe that deleting the whole Subversion repository requires  informing  Subversion that you re going to delete the repository  But Subversion only cares about managing a repository once it s created  not whether the repository exists or not   if that makes sense    It goes like this  the Subversion tools and commands are not adversely affected by just deleting your repository directory with the regular operating system utilities  like rm -R    A repository directory is not the same thing as an installed program directory  where deleting a program without uninstalling it might leave behind erratic config files or other dependencies   A repository is 100  self-contained in its directory  and deleting it is harmless  besides losing your project history    You just clean the slate to create a new Subversion repository and import your next project

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Go to Eclipse  Click on Window from Menu bar then  Open Perspective -  other -  SVN Repository Exploring -  Click OK   Now  after performing   Click OK  you need to go to truck  or place where your project is saved in SVN  then select project which you want to Delete  then right click -  Delete   This Will Delete project from subversion

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Obliberating  contents from a svn repository  i e  wiping this contents from the disc  can be done as described in this article http   www limilabs com blog how-to-permanently-remove-svn-folder  It requires access to the server side svn repository  thus you must have some admin privileges   It works by  a  dumping the repository content into a file   b  excluding some contents and  c  wiping and re-creating the plain repository again and eventually by  d  loading the filtered repository contents   svnadmin dump  path to svnrepo   gt  svnrepo txt                        a  svndumpfilter exclude  my folder   lt  svnrepo txt  gt  filtered txt       b  rm -rf  path to svnrepo   amp  amp  svnadmin create  path to svnrepo         c  svnadmin load  path to svnrepo   lt  filtered txt                       d    The repository counter is unchanged by this operations  However  your repository is now  missing  all those revision numbers used to create that contents you removed in step  b     Subversion 1 7 5 appears to handle this  missing  revisions pretty well  Using  svn ls -r  missing  for example  reports the very same as  svn ls -r     missing - 1      Contrary to this  my  pretty old  VIEWVC reports  no contents  when querying a  missing  revision

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this answer can be confusing   do read the comments attached to this post and make sure this is what you are after    svn delete  works against repository content  not against the repository itself  for doing repository maintenance  like completely deleting one  you should use svnadmin  However  there s a reason why svnadmin doesn t have a  delete  subcommand  You can just  rm -rf  REPOS PATH   on the svn server   where  REPOS PATH is the path you used to create your repository with   svnadmin create  REPOS PATH

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I too felt like the accepted answer was a bit misleading as it could lead to a user inadvertently deleting multiple Projects  It is not accurate to state that the words Repository  Project and Directory are ambiguous within the context of SVN  They have specific meanings  even if the system itself doesn t enforce those meanings  The community and more importantly the SVN Clients have an agreed upon understanding of these terms which allow them to Tag  Branch and Merge    Ideally this will help clear any confusion  As someone that has had to go from git to svn for a few projects  it can be frustrating until you learn that SVN branching and SVN projects are really talking about folder structures   SVN Terminology  Repository     The database of commits and history for your folders and files  A repository can contain multiple  projects  or no projects    Project     A specific SVN folder structure which enables SVN tools to perform tagging  merging and branching  SVN does not inherently support branching  Branching was added later and is a result of a special folder structure as follows        project    tags  branches  trunk    Note  Remember  an SVN  Project  is a term used to define a specific folder strcuture within a Repository  Projects in a Repository  Repository Layout   http   svn server local svn myrepo    skunkworks  Project  due to layout    tags  branches  trunk   app1  Project  due to layout    tags  branches  trunk   fooproject  Project  due to layout    tags  branches  trunk   regulardir  lt -- Not a  Project     subdir   http   svn server local svn myrepo2    app2 Project  due to layout    tags  branches  trunk     As a repository is just a database of the files and directory commits  it can host multiple projects  When discussing Repositories and Projects be sure the correct term is being used    Removing a Repository could mean removing multiple Projects   Local SVN Directory   svn directory at root   When using a URL commits occur automatically     svn co http   svn server local svn myrepo cd myrepo Remove a Project  svn rm skunkworks   svn commit Remove a Directory  svn rm regulardir subdir   svn commit Remove a Project  Without Checking Out   svn rm http   svn server local svn myrepo app1 Remove a Directory  Without Checking Out   svn rm http   svn server local svn myrepo regulardir   Because an SVN Project is really a specific directory structure  removing a project is the same as removing a directory    SVN Repository Management  There are several SVN servers available to host your repositories  The management of repositories themselves are typically done through the admin consoles of the servers  For example  Visual SVN allows you to create Repositories  databases   directories and Projects  But you cannot remove files  manage commits  rename folders  etc  from within the server console as those are SVN specific tasks  The SVN server typically manages the creation of a repository  Once a repository has been created and you have a new URL  the rest of your work is done through the svn command

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In the case where you simply want to delete a project from the head revision  so that it no longer shows up in your repo when you run svn list file    path to repo  just run    svn delete file    path to repo project    However  if you need to delete all record of it in the repo  use another method

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Disposing of a Working Copy  Subversion doesn t track either the state or the existence of working copies on the server  so there s no server overhead to keeping working copies around  Likewise  there s no need to let the server know that you re going to delete a working copy   If you re likely to use a working copy again  there s nothing wrong with just leaving it on disk until you re ready to use it again  at which point all it takes is an svn update to bring it up to date and ready for use   However  if you re definitely not going to use a working copy again  you can safely delete the entire thing using whatever directory removal capabilities your operating system offers  We recommend that before you do so you run svn status and review any files listed in its output that are prefixed with a   to make certain that they re not of importance   from  http   svnbook red-bean com en 1 7 svn tour cleanup html

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