Subversion: Remove a Project

There is no straightforward way to remove all the information of a project from the SVN repository and retrieve that diskspace. The only way to achieve this:

1. Dump the repository to a dumpfile.

$ svnadmin dump C:\Foo_Rep > C:\foo_rep_dump

2. Filter out the project you want to remove from the dumpfile.

$ svndumpfilter exclude Project_to_del < C:\foo_rep_dump > C:\foo_rep_dump_updated

If you have many projects that you want to remove, repeat this step for each of them.

3. Create a new repository.

$ svnadmin create C:\Foo_rep_new

4. Load the updated dumpfile to new repository.

$ svnadmin load C:\Foo_rep_new < C:\foo_rep_dump_updated