[svk-users] How to delete a mirrored repository permanently to release disk capacity?

[Alan Barrett]

[top-posting repaired]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Wang James wrote:
> > Each svk depot has exactly one svn repository dedicated to it.  If you
> > put your mirrors into //foo, //bar, and //baz, then they are all in the
> > depot that svk calls "//". On the other hand, if you put your mirrors
> > into /foo/, /bar/, and /baz/, then they are each in a separate depot.
> > Deleting an entire depot will lose all its history and recover disk
> > space.
>
> But i tried and found I can't put the mirrors to /foo/,/bar/,
> it seem that all mirror path must starts with '//'.

No, I have several mirrors in depots other than "//". As far as I know,
the "//" depot is not special in any way at all.  Perhaps you forgot to
create the depots (see "svk help depotmap").

--apb (Alan Barrett)