Edward Diener wrote:
> My interpretation of deleting from the repository is that the entry in the
> repository is deleted but the working copy is not affected. I guess I am
> wrong about that. Is there really no way to remove a file in a working
Why should the file in the working copy be _not_ affected by deleting it
in the repository? It's the same as if you delete the file in your
working copy and commit that delete.
> directory from under subversion control ? It would seem strange if that were
> the case and very primitive of SVN. It would mean that one could add files
> to the repository but that one could never delete files from the repository
> without having those files deleted from the working copy.
Imagine Subversion would _not_ delete the files which are deleted in the
repository from your working copy. Let's say that you have a file with
config data in it, under version control. Now someone else changes the
whole build process of your project, and that config file isn't needed
anymore. So he deletes that file from the repository. Now you do an
update, but the config file still remains in your working copy. This
could confuse the new build process, or it would confuse you: because
you still would think that this file is used by the build process.
Also, if you e.g. delete a whole bunch of files which you really don't
need anymore for your project because you now use a better library. So
if Subversion would not delete those files from your working copy, then
you would end up with a bunch of old but obsolete files in your working
copy.
> I execute the Cleanup command from the TortoiseSVN submenu, it completes
> successfully, but the same error repeats itself.
Try a fresh checkout.
Stefan
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Received on Thu Aug 12 21:25:55 2004