Re: Remove items from source control without deleting them

Christopher Clarke wrote:
> What do you think about making the --keep-local flag work for everyone's
> working copy?
>
> For example, I want remove myfile.txt from the repository but not delete
> it locally, so I: svn delete --keep-local myfile.txt
>
> Why should this delete the file locally from anyone else's working copy?

Ummm, because it is a versioned file and the point of a versioning
system is to make that happen...

> Why not just leave it in all working copies too?

What should you expect to happen when someone jumps their working copy
back and forth between the times when the file was/wasn't versioned
(something versioning systems are supposed to do predictably)?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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