On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 6:13 AM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:39:12 +0530, Roshan Pardeshi <roshan.parde...@ncdex.com> > wrote: > > >We require to delete the branches(folder and files) from SVN server to > >release some space from disk as we are facing space crunch on disk in SVN > >server. > > Following this discussion it seems like the best approach would be to buy > yourself a larger disk and then transfer the content of the small disk to > that... > > SVN has as its basic idea: > "keep everything forever so older data can be extracted" > > Disk space is cheap these days and you are wasting many hours of costly work > time trying to circumvent the purchase of a disk????
Replication time, and backup space, aren't free, especially for high reliability services or the performance you may want for a bulky source control project. There is a time where the "immutable history" becomes too expensive. Spending skull sweat trying to work past the inability to delete obsolete branches or commits also becomes overwhelming. At some point, at least with Subversion, you have to archive the old repo, keep it only for reference, and start over with a clean entirely new repo populated only by a copy of the contents, not of the history.
