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Re: Remove items from source control without deleting them

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:22 -0400

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:24, Christopher Clarke<tigris.org_at_fuscata.com> wrote:
> On 16/07/2009 14:12, Andy Levy wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:08, Christopher Clarke<tigris.org_at_fuscata.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16/07/2009 13:26, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You keep asking us to fix this problem from within Subversion,
>>>> but have not yet responded to my questions and suggestions about how
>>>> your own process could be tweaked in order to avoid this problem.
>>>
>>> I am asking you to add a feature.
>>>
>>> The fact is that this: There are valid reasons to remove an item from
>>> version control without deleting it from working copies.
>>>
>>> There are a number of scenarios where I would want to do this, in
>>> addition to the examples I gave. It's not productive to focus on the
>>> examples.
>>
>> Yes it is. Before anything can be implemented, or even designed, the
>> use cases, advantages, potential problems, logical "holes", etc. need
>> to be fully understood.
>
> Ok, start with this one: add item, commit, realize item should not have been
> placed under version control, curse own stupidity, "unadd", ignore, commit
>
>>> Search the 'net and you will find a lot of other people who have the
>>> same request.
>>
>> Links, please (you seem to have already found them, why duplicate the
>> effort?).
>
> oic, duplicating effort is bad for you, but ok for my team? ;-)
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=svn+remove+without+deleting+local

Make sure you filter out the duplicates - a lot of those links are
references to the exact same mailing list posts, in different
archives. It's not as many results as you might think.

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