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:_Rep > C:_rep_dump

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

   $ svndumpfilter exclude Project_to_del < C:_rep_dump > C:_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:_rep_new

4. Load the updated dumpfile to new repository.

   $ svnadmin load C:_rep_new < C:_rep_dump_updated