Delete all files from svn repository

Question

Probably this is a very easy question, but I did not find yet how to delete all files present at the moment in a external SVN repository.

I can delete just one file using:

svn delete -m "delete README" http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/README

But now I want to delete all of them. I thought about a script which gets the list of all the files of the repository and afterwards deletes them one by one, but this is tedious. Do you know a simpler solution?

I also tried:

svn rm http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo
svn delete http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/*

But nothing

Thanks

Answer 1

You could do a shallow checkout and then delete all.

Example:

svn checkout --depth immediates http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo myworking_copy
cd myworking_copy
svn rm *
svn ci -m "Deleting all"

Answer 2

You can svn rm a sub-path in the repos, but not the repos itself. For the future a trunk / branches / tags structure will probably fit you better.

To delete them with some bash/zsh magic:

REPO=http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo && svn rm `svn ls $REPO | sed "s/^/$REPO\//"`

which will expand to

svn rm http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/file_1 http://myrepo.com/svn/myrepo/file_2 ...