"SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch> wrote in message
news:411BB59F.70009@gmx.ch...
> 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.
I want to remove a file from under SVN control that is in my working
directory without SVN destroying it. How hard can that be to implement and
allow ?
> 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.
That is what human communication is for.
> 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 would have to manually delete them. This is better than not allowing me to
remove a file from under SVN control without destroting the file ?
>
> > I execute the Cleanup command from the TortoiseSVN submenu, it completes
> > successfully, but the same error repeats itself.
>
> Try a fresh checkout.
How do I do a chechout from within TortoiseSVN. I looked for a menu command
but can not find one.
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Received on Thu Aug 12 21:46:01 2004