With help of some scripting and SQL, you can find all UUIDs for files that you 
want to remove and shun them. after that when you rebuild, your repo file will 
be shrunk.

It is a bit effort though.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephan Beal
> Sent: 07/05/12 09:15 AM
> To: Fossil SCM user's discussion
> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] How do I rebuild my fossil repo?
> 
> Nothing can be removed from fossil. Ever. There is no way to shrink a repo,
> only to re-create it with the desired files.
> On Jul 5, 2012 2:54 AM, "Mohd Radzi Ibrahim" <imra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > My problem is that when I started using fossil, there are so many unwanted
> > files getting added my repository. Now, my repository database has already
> > grown to 700mb. Some files were data files which were accidentally added by
> > using addremove. My searching points to 'shun'; but it is impossible, since
> > I could not find artifact that could be shunned. And painful, even if I
> > found those files, since it could be numerous. What I want to do is to get
> > a clean repo with current files I have in my checkout folders, with all
> > tickets and historical events for those files.
> >
> > Thank you for any help rendered.
> >
> > best regards,
> > Radzi.
> >
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