svn delete folder (OS Level)

Question

I am a newbie to SVN and somehow managed to import few projects to the repository created. I have somehow imported a project that wasn't required , hence would like to delete it.Going through information available online about svn delete , seems like does not completely remove it (OS Level) and traces would still remain.A delete too with rm -rf can be done only at the repository level.

Would be great to have inputs from experts here on any alternatives.My configurations are as below :

• Running svnserve -d on a FreeBSD box
• I have complete control over the repository (root access ! Yes managed to get that!!)

Any help is highly appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The only way to completely remove a file or a folder in svn repository is to manually dump the repository to a file, filter the dump and recreate the repository using that filtered dump file. This is really not stuff to be done by a newbie.

Why do you think you can't live with the history? I would really suggest that you do.