Tortoise Delete File System Repository

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Tortoise Delete File System Repository

I am working on a file system repository with Tortoise.

I deleted the initial folder where I created the repository.

The folder which I added to the old repository, when I try to add to a new repository, the error message appears:

Repository UUID '6df16c57-c740-ea49-ab7f-fcd22d7f7cb9' doesn't match expected

Is there a way to simply clear out the settings for the old repository? So that I could perform the importing of the folder to add into the new repository in a clean slate.

BTW this is my tortoise version (if it is of any help):

TortoiseSVN 1.5.8, Build 15348 - 32 Bit , 2009/02/13 18:06:18

Subversion 1.5.5,

apr 1.2.12

apr-utils 1.2.12

berkeley db 4.4.20

neon 0.28.3

OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008

zlib 1.2.3

Basically, all I want to do is to clear up the repository which I earlier created so that it is like starting from scratch over again.

Thanks.

Yes. If you have Cygwin installed, you can use the unsvn utility to remove all the ".svn" folders.

Michael Aaron Safyan 2009-07-30 02:29:05

What is Cygwin? is it packaged with tortoise itself?

Batuta 2009-07-30 02:33:49

No, Cygwin isn't packaged with Tortoise. Cygwin is a bundle of UNIX tools and libraries that have been ported to Windows. It provides the bare-bones essentials needed to run UNIX shell scripts and to generate WIN32 binaries from code targeted for UNIX systems.

Michael Aaron Safyan 2009-07-30 02:46:33

The "unsvn" program is a BASH Shell Script, which is why you would need to have Cygwin to run it on Windows. (Cygwin includes a copy of the BASH Shell, ported to Windows).

Michael Aaron Safyan 2009-07-30 02:47:34

Is there no other way to simply delete the folder where the svn repository was initially created and clear the tags for the files that were initially checked in/out?I have deleted the folder where the original repository was created but the folders and files which I added originally are still marked with the Tortoise Icons.

Batuta 2009-07-30 02:58:06

Yes, you can recursively go through all the folders and delete any folder named ".svn".

Michael Aaron Safyan 2009-07-30 05:00:33

(Subversion stores the metadata in the ".svn" folders)

Michael Aaron Safyan 2009-07-30 05:01:14

There's an easy way to do this with TortoioseSVN:

unversion a working copy

Stefan 2009-07-30 07:33:23

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